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Decency on the Diamond

Decency on the Diamond

Justin Turner's Teachable Moment

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"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

It's been 66 years since Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, asked those words of Senator Joe McCarthy during the "Red Scare" hysteria and hearings of the 1950s.

Back then, Welch's sincere and pointed questioning seared its way immediately into the American…

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