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A 10 page paper on the integration of Black athletes into major league baseball. The writer describes the evolution of the Negro Leagues and the reasons why it would have been beneficial for these leagues to remain in effect as they contributed to social bonding. It is argued that integration damaged some of the pride and cultural experience that Black athletes enjoyed in the Negro Leagues. Desegregation brought about major opposition, ridicule, shame, etc; Irony exists in the fact that Blacks were allowed to fight and die for America-- but they could not play baseball. And once they were allowed to, nobody would accept them. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Desegreg.doc
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a war that was fought, in part, over the enslaving of black Americans -- the first baseball teams comprised entirely of black players stepped up to the plate in Brooklyn,
New York. The Philadelphia Excelsiors defeated the home team, the Brooklyn Uniques, in a contest that was billed as "the championship of colored clubs."1 Black Americans had their freedom. But
that didnt mean they would be accepted as equals in any phase of American society. The "colored clubs" provided blacks the opportunity to play Americas favorite sport, even while being
routinely ostracized by the white community. Ostensibly just one more form of racial discrimination, these ball clubs fostered a sense of unity and camaraderie among black Americans.2 As hard
as it may be to comprehend today, in this era of multi-million dollar contracts for ball players, baseball was --in the beginning -- a "gentlemens game."3 It was played by
amateur athletic clubs purely as leisure time recreation. Among those amateur teams in the early days were teams with black players. And when baseball turned pro, John "Bud" Fowler was
the first black professional player, and Moses "Fleetwood" Walker was the first black major leaguer.4 Hundreds of black players played with their white teammates in professional and amateur clubs in
the United States and Canada. But it wasnt necessarily an amiable situation; far from it -- some white players refused to play against black players. A midseason exhibition between the
Chicago White Stockings and the Newark Little Giants in 1884 marked the end of blacks playing on predominantly white teams. Cap Anson, a white Chicago player, refused to take the
field because a black pitcher was scheduled to start for Newark. Directors of the International League, concerned for their financial future as well as the growing racial controversy, voted not
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