In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson
broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston
City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out
three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the
team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman's
much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players
would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a
war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947. This book tells
the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in
baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car
porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration
in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the
country. It also reminds us that the first black player in
professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood
Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that
unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened,
the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and
the battle for integration began anew.
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