American Creed

From Chicago to Coal Country, Joe Maddon Looks for a Win

Baseball’s Joe Maddon founded the Hazleton Integration Project after a controversial immigration ordinance tore a chasm through the ethnic and political fault lines of his coal-producing hometown. “You want to make kids friends fast? Put them on the same team, with the same common goal, and I promise you, color of skin, language barriers, what you like to eat – that goes away just like that.”

From Chicago to Coal Country, Joe Maddon Looks for a Win

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    American Creed

    S1 E1 - 1h 24m

    Condoleezza Rice and David M. Kennedy team up across party lines to explore whether there are ideals we share in common. Stories of unlikely activists including baseball manager Joe Maddon, author Junot Diaz and Marine Tegan Griffith show communities striving to come together across deep divides.

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