“Organized baseball”, in the first half of the twentieth century was not consistent with American national values. American national values consist of economics, individualism, basic freedoms of all humans, and simply doing the right thing. Economics in the sense that the harder one works and produces better results, the more they should receive for their work. Individualism in the sense that all Americans have the ability to create their own future and control how far they get in life. Basic freedoms are our freedoms everyone receives such as, pursuit of happiness, life, and liberty no matter what ethnicity, race, or color one is. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century “organized baseball” does not follow these values. This ranges
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One incident in particular the Black Sox Scandal. “Later evidence revealed that eight Chicago players had taken money from gamblers to dump the 1919 World Series. Seven of the eight alleged fixers admitted to a grand jury they had received sums varying from $5,000-$10,000—figures that exceeded the annual salaries of most of the accused—to throw the series to Cincinnati (Rader 144).” If the league would have just paid the players more the league would not have had to deal with players gambling on games, barnstorming, and other things to make …show more content…
It affected the Blacks daily lives, with them not allowed in the Major Leagues, it degraded them, made them begin their own leagues, and limited how much money they could provide for their families. “Black professional baseball players instead toiled in their own separate and unequal world. Like the white industry, but on a smaller scale, their major leagues—the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League—utilized a feeder system of semipro and minor recruits (Burk 32).” Even though some of these players were better than the players in the Major Leagues, they were denied. It is not like they got the same pay either, they got paid as much as your typical low income black man. Eventually, due to lack of funding and The Great Depression the colored leagues failed. It wasn’t till the very end of the first half of the twentieth century where a man, by the name of, Branch Rickey worked Blacks into his system of the Minor Leagues. But, by then some of the Blacks that could have had a successful career in the majors were getting up in age and never got the opportunity to play in the majors. Finally, in 1947 Jackie Robinson made the first appearance for Blacks in the Major
One incident in particular the Black Sox Scandal. “Later evidence revealed that eight Chicago players had taken money from gamblers to dump the 1919 World Series. Seven of the eight alleged fixers admitted to a grand jury they had received sums varying from $5,000-$10,000—figures that exceeded the annual salaries of most of the accused—to throw the series to Cincinnati (Rader 144).” If the league would have just paid the players more the league would not have had to deal with players gambling on games, barnstorming, and other things to make …show more content…
It affected the Blacks daily lives, with them not allowed in the Major Leagues, it degraded them, made them begin their own leagues, and limited how much money they could provide for their families. “Black professional baseball players instead toiled in their own separate and unequal world. Like the white industry, but on a smaller scale, their major leagues—the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League—utilized a feeder system of semipro and minor recruits (Burk 32).” Even though some of these players were better than the players in the Major Leagues, they were denied. It is not like they got the same pay either, they got paid as much as your typical low income black man. Eventually, due to lack of funding and The Great Depression the colored leagues failed. It wasn’t till the very end of the first half of the twentieth century where a man, by the name of, Branch Rickey worked Blacks into his system of the Minor Leagues. But, by then some of the Blacks that could have had a successful career in the majors were getting up in age and never got the opportunity to play in the majors. Finally, in 1947 Jackie Robinson made the first appearance for Blacks in the Major