In baseball for many years there was the negro league and the regular MLB. In the negro is where all players of color played compared to in the MLB which was only white people. Segregation was used across all of America for the most part at this time including the MLB. Although the negro league had players who were just as good if not better than some of the MLB players they were not payed the same money, did not travel the same as well as not being treated the same. The MLB at the time was the biggest league in all of sports across America.
Until one day when the Brooklyn Dodgers took a chance and signed a young African American man named Jackie Robinson. This came as a shock around the country as the team and Jackie picked up hatred from just about everyone. Through all this they dominate the league won a couple World Series and managed to do this all while being individual and different from everyone in the league. Owners from other teams were sending hate and telling players to take action against the Brooklyn
Dodgers players, but this did not faze them, continually finding a way to get the job done.
The Brooklyn dodgers managed to create this into a way of standardization as you look today across the league the MLB is 70% colored and minority players. This was ground breaking and shaped the MLB as we know it today. Continually breaking the racial and cultural ground as we know with all the record that the colored players are breaking today.
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