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- <text id=91TT1408>
- <title>
- June 24, 1991: Died:A.B. ("Happy") Chandler
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 24, 1991 Thelma & Louise
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 47
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- <p> DIED. A.B. ("Happy") Chandler, 92, former Kentucky Governor,
- U.S. Senator and baseball commissioner from 1945 to 1951, who
- helped break the color bar by supporting the Brooklyn Dodgers'
- decision to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues; in
- Versailles, Ky. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in
- 1982.
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- </body></article>
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