Ronald Reagan: “Those players have made baseball better, they've made America better…”

On the recordJune 21, 1981

Those players have made baseball better, they've made America better, and so have the great black athletes in all the other major sports.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at a White House Reception Opening the 'Champions of American Sport' Exhibition

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