Warner Free Lecture ~ Ted Reinstein

Ted Reinstein
Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier

Ted presents the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual.

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