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ESPN baseball expert blasts DOD over removal of Jackie Robinson article
The Pentagon is facing backlash after an article dedicated to baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his time in the Army was removed from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) website.
ESPN baseball insider Jeff Passan on Tuesday accused the DOD of politicizing Robinson’s contributions to the military and called for the department to immediately rectify the situation.
“The ghouls who did this should be ashamed,” Passan wrote on the social platform X. “Jackie Robinson was the embodiment of an American hero. Fix this now.”
Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson dons a baseball Mitt at his Stamford, Conn. home, Dec. 13, 1956 shortly after his trade with the Giants was announced. (AP Photo/John Lyndsay)The department used to have a webpage about Robinson, detailing how he was drafted in 1942 and assigned to a segregated Army cavalry unit in Fort Riley, Kan. But as of Tuesday, the page no longer existed on the website; instead, users encounter a 404 error message, and the URL now features "dei" before the story's headline.
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