It was the kick off of the Civil Rights Game Weekend featuring a roundtable discussion of baseball's greatest players. Panelists included Tony Perez, Oscar Robertson, MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds; Dr. Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport; Nathaniel Jones, former U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit judge and current minority shareholder in the Reds; James Clingman, creator of the Greater Cincinnati African-American Chamber of Commerce; and Lee Lowenfish, biographer of Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers magnate who in 1945 signed Jackie Robinson.
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