Baseball steps up to a unifying plate
by the Monitor's Editorial Board
May 29, 2024
2 minutes
A great milestone in professional baseball was that day in April 1947 when Jackie Robinson strode onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the first Black player in the major leagues. That began the end of the Negro Leagues, which had consisted of mainly Black players because of forced segregation. Now, baseball
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