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Ben Chandler on Baseball and Family

Season 11 Episode 14 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Ben Chandler reflects on how his grandfather, Happy Chandler, helped integrate baseball.

Former Congressman Ben Chandler, now executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council, recounts the important role his grandfather, Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr., played as baseball commissioner in helping Jackie Robinson to become the first African-American to play Major League Baseball in 1947.

04/17/2016 | Rating NR

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Ben Chandler on Baseball and Family

Season 11 Episode 14 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Former Congressman Ben Chandler, now executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council, recounts the important role his grandfather, Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr., played as baseball commissioner in helping Jackie Robinson to become the first African-American to play Major League Baseball in 1947.

04/17/2016 | Rating NR

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