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University of Central Florida

2020

Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Michael Jordan, Baseball, Chicago White Sox, Birmingham Barons

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Michael Jordan In Orlando For Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau Apr 2020

Michael Jordan In Orlando For Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau

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ESPN has now aired the first four episodes of “The Last Dance.” There will be ten in all. This documentary is being marketed as a new and candid look at Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls. It is receiving rave reviews and, so far as I have seen, this is a good piece of documentary film making. As many of you know Jordan left basketball in mid-career to pursue baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization. During the 1994 baseball season, Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons of the Southern League. In early May of that year he came …