Negro League players remind us about potential that baseball stole
by Nick Canepa
Many scores and years after Lincoln abolished slavery, African-Americans still couldn’t do a lot of things and go a lot of places where white people worked, dined, resided and played. They could go to war. But they couldn’t play major league baseball.
It is one of our greatest shames.
Even after Jackie Robinson broke through baseball’s color line in 1947, the Negro Leagues, which produced some of the greatest players in history, remained necessary because MLB couldn’t scrape off all of its lily-white skin overnight.
Does anger still remain among the few Negro Leaguers still among us? You bet.
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