Two guys, Ives and Quinn, and the end of Baseball’s color barrier

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Two guys, Ives and Quinn, and the end of Baseball’s color barrier

By Bruce Bouchard John Turchiano, a retired union official and a close friend of 50 years, and I often talk baseball. What follows is from a chat we had recently about Jackie Robinson and the reversal of the color barrier in baseball, which happened 80 years ago this week — April 15, 1947 — when Robinson first took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Courtesy John Turchiano Rachel Robinson and John Turchiano at the dedication of the Jackie Robi…