'It wasn't a matter of if. It was simply a matter of when Black baseball was going to die.'
In February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series"28 Black Stories in 28 Days." We examine the issues, challenges and opportunities Black athletes and sports officials continue to face after the nation’s reckoning on race following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. This is the third installment of the series.
Manley, like her fellow team owners, understood the potential breaking of MLB's color barrier eventually would mean the demise of the Negro leagues. "I tell folks all the time the Negro leagues took one for the team. And those Black owners really took one for the team." "If they stand up and they’re the ones that are trying to stop the integration of baseball, guess what Blacks folks are going to say? 'Why are you holding us back?'"Kendrick said."And it wasn’t a matter of them trying to hold us back. It was them trying to protect their business. This was their livelihoods. This was how they made their living. And they had to essentially kind of lay in the background and watch this thing kind of dismantle.
Rickey was all too willing to raid the Negro leagues of players under contract, much as the Mexican League had done to MLB. Robinson was the inaugural MLB rookie of the year winner in 1947. After the award was given out in both the American and National leagues beginning in 1949, half the rookie awards over the next five seasons went to former Negro league players: Newcombe , Sam Jethroe , Willie Mays , Joe Black and Jim Gilliam .
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