Quote:
Every April 15 Major League Baseball commemorates Jackie Robinson and baseball integration. The 50th anniversary (1997) marked the apex of the commemorations with league officials uniformly retiring Robinson's uniform number of 42. The now annual ritual misses the mark by not educating the public about the work and the larger cast of actors (beyond Jackie and Branch Rickey) involved in the transformation of America's game. Continually left out are the contributions on and off the playing field of pioneering Latinos such as Minnie Miņoso, Vic Power, and Alex Pompez.
Today's dearth of African-American players and the howl raised by Gary Sheffield's comments in last June's GQ that baseball's Latino surge has come at their expense proves baseball still has much to do to properly address its racial past and present.
|
Source
This is fantastic. What a wonderful thing to do.
Honoring Latinos
Honoring Latinos
Linear Mode
