Sunday morning, ESPN's normally watchable and well-produced "Outside the Lines (OTL)" aired an uncritical feature on Lester Rodney, "a white sportswriter who crusaded for baseball integration."The OTL producers conceded that Rodney did his writing for the Daily Worker, the house organ of the Communist Party USA, but the subtext of this concession was that the Communists, Rodney in particular, were keen on racial justice when the rest of America couldn't have cared less.Where do I begin?As we know now, the CPUSA was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union.  No sentence appeared in the Daily Worker that did not serve the interests of that benighted empire.  When Rodney began writing in 1936, the Soviets had recently completed its terror starvation of the small farmers known as "kulaks," most of them Ukrainian.  The body count reached about 7 million.  Segregated baseball apparently troubled Rodney more than genocide.In September...(Read Full Post)