![]() ![]() It was the first such sweep since the New York Yankees, led by "Murderers Row", had blanked the laughable St. On August 30 th, the Cleveland Indians completed an embarrassing eleven home-game sweep of the visiting Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox managed to pull off a rare triple play, but still lost to the Baltimore Orioles during a seventeen-inning game that set a new American League record for time consumed at four hours and fifty-eight minutes, and tied the Major League mark (set seven weeks earlier) for the most players used in a single game (forty-two). The landmark case was a first step in mandating racial equality and initiated the desegregation of all public institutions in the United States of America. arms embargo, but they later purchased arms from Czechoslovakia providing an excuse for the uprising.Īfter hearing the case of Brown versus the Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren (United States Supreme Court) formally ruled that all forms of segregation were unconstitutional. ![]() The government, ruled under Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, supported a Communist-authored land reform bill that expropriated most of the land holdings of United Fruit Company. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) backed a coup by Colonel Carlos Armas to overthrow the Guatemalan Government. YEAR IN REVIEW : 1954 American League Off the field. ![]()
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