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“Blue Train,” the record that he made to satisfy his contract with Blue Note, was a masterpiece exemplification of that period.

“Through Cruzito and the exemplification of Chicano art, I thought I could show how a chavalon from the barrio was just as talented as any of your mainstream artists,” explained Borrego.

“For me, he is the exemplification of being alive at 93 and creative and interested and influential, and still working in his craft in a beautiful way.”

But this time, there is no Bob Gibson — an obvious exemplification of the game’s imbalance — to point the league’s power brokers in the right direction.

And I think that this film is a good exemplification of that.