MLB’s Uncomfortable Event: The Civil Rights Game

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 MLB’s Uncomfortable Event: The Civil Rights Game
As sports figures go, there may be none more profound than Jackie Robinson. With Branch Rickey and the Dodgers signing Robinson to a major league contract, Jackie broke through the deplorable Jim Crow laws that surrounded baseball until 1947 and broke baseball’s color barrier. So, when I received word today on the panelists for “Baseball and the Civil Rights Movement” roundtable ... [link]

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The Biz of Baseball: Brown: MLB’s Uncomfortable Event: The Civil Rights Game
Published 3/24/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brown: MLB’s Uncomfortable Event: The Civil Rights Game A professional sports industry that was criticized repeatedly by the African American press and public leading up to the Dodgers’ great gamble on Robinson, is now puffing its chest out about its place in history when it comes to Civil Rights. And, MLB can claim that through the 50’s and 60’s when the diversity of the game grew with the likes of Larry Doby, Minnie Miñoso, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, and Roy Campanella. But, color me uneasy about baseball leading the charge on Civil Rights while ...

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