New Articles by Johnny Smith

Smith's first article, for The Daily Beast, is about Mickey Mantle, sportswriters, and how the myths of the National Pastime are created. The full article can be found at:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-sportswriters-whitewashing-baseballs-dark-secrets

Smith's second article is about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s activism as a famous college basketball player at UCLA and the debate among black athletes’ proposed boycott of the 1968
Olympics. From ESPN’s The Undefeated, here is the full story:

https://theundefeated.com/features/lew-alcindor-kareem-abdul-jabbar-ucla-boycot-1968-olympics/

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