Jackie Robinson Day and What Really Could have Been Done?

[IM2]

Today is the 20th Celebration Major League Baseball has to hone Jackie Robinson. And while Robinson did make history, maybe we need to llook at what really happened. Because this country could really have broken the color barrier in a major way, but didn't.

America could have made a major breakthrough by expanding the "Major Leagues to include the 7 most sucessful back baseball franchises. Doing that would have been a huge and permanent economic boom to the black community. So despite allowing Robinson to play, the league did not integrate black owners and franchises into the game and still today I do not believe there are any black owners in the Major Leagues. It took forever for a black manager when both issues could have been resolved in 1947.

Jackie Robinson's legacy still inspires today's Black pro baseball players

No question about it, Jackie Robinson is still an inspiration for Black MLB players.

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Welcome to NLBM - Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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[excalibur]

The Dodgers broke the color barrier, that is, it was them who decided to move forward. They chose the correct guy to use in their attempt. Had they chosen a lesser man it would have failed, thus they chose wisely

Giving credit solely to Jackie is not reality, it took a combined effort from the Dodgers and the NL President.

 

[Oddball]

Branch Rickey broke the color barrier.

 

[MarcATL]

The Dodgers broke the color barrier, that is, it was them who decided to move forward. They chose the correct guy to use in their attempt. Had they chosen a lesser man it would have failed, thus they chose wisely

Giving credit solely to Jackie is not reality, it took a combined effort from the Dodgers and the NL President.

He was a yes man.

 

[excalibur]

Branch Rickey broke the color barrier.

Yep, he convinced the other Dodgers owners (he himself owned 25% of the Dodgers).

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Landis, who was openly opposed to integrating Major League Baseball for what he regarded as legitimate reasons. Landis died in 1944, but Rickey had already set the process in motion, having sought (and gained) approval from the Dodgers Board of Directors in 1943 to begin the search for "the right man."​

Branch Rickey - Wikipedia

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[Superbadbrutha]

Yep, he convinced the other Dodgers owners (he himself owned 25% of the Dodgers).

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Landis, who was openly opposed to integrating Major League Baseball for what he regarded as legitimate reasons. Landis died in 1944, but Rickey had already set the process in motion, having sought (and gained) approval from the Dodgers Board of Directors in 1943 to begin the search for "the right man."​

Branch Rickey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Another white man, is there any black players left in MLB?

 

[Libby von H]

Today is the 20th Celebration Major League Baseball has to hone Jackie Robinson. And while Robinson did make history, maybe we need to llook at what really happened. Because this country could really have broken the color barrier in a major way, but didn't.

America could have made a major breakthrough by expanding the "Major Leagues to include the 7 most sucessful back baseball franchises. Doing that would have been a huge and permanent economic boom to the black community. So despite allowing Robinson to play, the league did not integrate black owners and franchises into the game and still today I do not believe there are any black owners in the Major Leagues. It took forever for a black manager when both issues could have been resolved in 1947.

Jackie Robinson's legacy still inspires today's Black pro baseball players

No question about it, Jackie Robinson is still an inspiration for Black MLB players.

www.usatoday.com

Welcome to NLBM - Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

www.nlbm.com

THis is called 'Complaining that I am not in Heaven" ...I have noticed that racists like you never have an issue they are content with. They always look for the next BIG COMPLAINT. You remind me of Hillary. She sounded like you when she embarrassed herself about Reconstruction. She expected shouts of "Canonize her! Canonize her!"

What can be learned from Hillary Clinton's slurs against Reconstruction​

What can be learned from Hillary Clinton's slurs against Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln's greatness was not in being forgiving to the South

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[Curried Goats]

The Dodgers broke the color barrier, that is, it was them who decided to move forward. They chose the correct guy to use in their attempt. Had they chosen a lesser man it would have failed, thus they chose wisely

Giving credit solely to Jackie is not reality, it took a combined effort from the Dodgers and the NL President.

The point IM2 was about your shit culture. If your people weren't so deplorable and racist they would of integrated the black league instead of just one man they could use for their own profit.

 

[Curried Goats]

THis is called 'Complaining that I am not in Heaven" ...I have noticed that racists like you never have an issue they are content with. They always look for the next BIG COMPLAINT. You remind me of Hillary. She sounded like you when she embarrassed herself about Reconstruction. She expected shouts of "Canonize her! Canonize her!"

What can be learned from Hillary Clinton's slurs against Reconstruction​

What can be learned from Hillary Clinton's slurs against Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln's greatness was not in being forgiving to the South

theweek.com

You remind me of a hit dog hollering.

 

[Oddball]

Yep, he convinced the other Dodgers owners (he himself owned 25% of the Dodgers).

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Landis, who was openly opposed to integrating Major League Baseball for what he regarded as legitimate reasons. Landis died in 1944, but Rickey had already set the process in motion, having sought (and gained) approval from the Dodgers Board of Directors in 1943 to begin the search for "the right man."​

Branch Rickey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yet if you said the name "Branch Rickey" to bigot buttpipes like IM2 and his little glee club, you'd get deer in the headlights.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Think of what these morons did to Al Campanis in spite of how much he helped Robinson deal with the situation.
No context allowed by democrat neosegregationist hypocrite bigots.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Integration is the worst thing to ever happen to the Negro Leagues.
NAACP and democrat panderers took notice.

 

[IM2]

Think of what these morons did to Al Campanis in spite of how much he helped Robinson deal with the situation.
No context allowed by democrat neosegregationist hypocrite bigots.

Al Campanis didn't do anything. Campanis made racist comments and got what he deserved. There were all kinds of blacks who were qualified to manage when Campanis made those comments.

 

[IM2]

Integration is the worst thing to ever happen to the Negro Leagues.
NAACP and democrat panderers took notice.

MB should have integrated the Negro teams into the league.

Robinson was a republican and the NAACP at the time woud have been run by Republicans.

 

[BackAgain]

The point IM2 was about your shit culture. If your people weren't so deplorable and racist they would have integrated the black league instead of just one man they could use for their own profit.

First, you’re illiterate.

Secondly, you’re a moron.

Third, you are of course a racist pig dog.

Fourth, you couldn’t give credit to people who made the progress against racism even in a game if it means you’d have to admit that white folks helped make it happen.

Pinhead racist IQ2 worries about what alternative manner of integration might have beeen superior (based on his ignorant assumption that it had any chance of working at that time). And you applaud him.

 

[22lcidw]

Al Campanis didn't do anything. Campanis made racist comments and got what he deserved. There were all kinds of blacks who were qualified to manage when Campanis made those comments.

He was stupid. At the time what was the thinking? And what was the visions of men who promoted equality? People do not think things change on a line of demarcation. There are hundreds and thousands of issues pertaining to that. The Carpenter family in Delaware are racist. And promoters of Joe. They owned the Phillies for a few decades up until the mid 1980's. Delaware is a corporatist owned state.

 

[struth]

The point IM2 was about your shit culture. If your people weren't so deplorable and racist they would of integrated the black league instead of just one man they could use for their own profit.

Yeah, but it wasn't going to happen in 1947...

 

[IM2]

Yeah, but it wasn't going to happen in 1947...

It could have happened in 1947 just as much as allowing a black man into the league.

 

[struth]

It could have happened in 1947 just as much as allowing a black man into the league.

Could have, but wasn’t going to…here and not in many places around the globe.

 

[IM2]

Could have, but wasn’t going to…here and not in many places around the globe.

Should have and there are no excuses.