Eighty years before Jackie Robinson

Code: SL22824

Dates: March 24, 2026

Meets: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Lower Merion High School

Course Fee: $39.00

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Baseball has been around forever, right? In ancient times, around the world, Egyptian pharaohs, too. There were Black teams as well as white. Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947. But you'll learn how Octavius Catto ripped that line in Philadelphia 80 years before. There's a lot to know about the beginnings of baseball.
Fee: $39.00
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Fee Breakdown

CategoryDescriptionAmount
Course Fee (Basic)Course Fee$ 39.00
Optional FeeDonation$ 0.00

Lower Merion High School

315 E Montgomery Avenue
Ardmore, PA 19003
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Dan Biddle

Daniel R. Biddle is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for a series of investigative stories on the Philadelphia courts for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has won national awards for his work and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He's taught journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and the University of Delaware. He currently writes for the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Sara Rimer, and babysits often for his two grandchildren.

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Murray Dubin

Murray Dubin was a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1971 to 2005. He is the author of "South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories and the Melrose Diner." At the Inquirer, he covered race and ethnicity, edited fashion, wrote about children and families and was the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief. Before all of that, he worked on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. He liked it. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Libby Rosof.  

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