“If you put together how important he was to the Brooklyn Dodgers … how important he was to the integration of blacks in the game of baseball … that’s a big social issue,” Seaver said. “[If] you combine his playing career, his defensive career, his managing career, his offensive career, hitting in the middle of that lineup … the characteristics that he carried and the respect that he had for the game and his overall picture, he definitely in my estimation belongs in the Hall of Fame.”
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