The reason Jackie Robinson is celebrated is because he was the first black player. He was a great baseball player. He was specifically chosen because he was considered to be the best person to do it because he was considered to have the personality to do it. That is why he is celebrated. Not...
How good was Willard Brown? At the age of 32, he played less than half a year in the major leagues and if he just played 2/3s of the season, he would have had 50 doubles, 15 triples and 15 home runs and 140 RBIs. Major League Baseball had seen enough. They did not want to see any more. The next...
If you want to complain about Jackie Robinson, you can complain about the fact that he was not actually the first black player in major league basetball. Those was Willard Brown and Hank Thompson. Thompson was actually a better player than Robinson. It's too bad nobody knows about him.
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