it's like in baseball, they teach the kids that Jackie Robinson was the first black player on an otherwise white team in 1947. Nonsense! There were mixed race professional baseball teams in the 1880s, until the Democratic Party pressured the team owners to separate teams by race.
it's like in baseball, they teach the kids that Jackie Robinson was the first black player on an otherwise white team in 1947. Nonsense! There were mixed race professional baseball teams in the 1880s, until the Democratic Party pressured the team owners to separate teams by race.
They lied to us in school all the time then. What else did they not tell us?
Rosa Parks was a communist activist, and her bus stunt was organized with help of the NAACP
Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first, I think.
I'd thank Ken Burns' excellent documentary Baseball for that info, but that series also believed all of Al Stump's lies about Ty Cobb, too.
To be fair, we all believed that about Cobb back then. The truth didn't come out until around 2018.
Latin players were in the MLB before Jackie.