Beginning in the sandlot to a stadium seating over 30,000 fans, baseball has given from children to seniors all a common claim; we call it our nation’s past time. Baseball and America have grown up together. Baseball has evolved over the years from its fields, to it’s numbers and its players. We know professional baseball today as a sport where everybody is accepted and welcomed, but it was not always like this. During this time most of America practiced racial segregation, although the constitution claimed that everyone was to be treated equally and protected. That of course did not apply to people of color. They had separate bathroom, drinking fountains, and there was a color barrier in the major leagues. Baseball had become popular for the
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Armour explains that “Black players first accounted for 10% of rosters in 1958, reached 20% in 1965, and 28% in 1986.” After Jackie just three months later the second African American man was signed into the major leagues. Within the years many more “colored” players were introduced to teams. Armour find that “more black players on all-star teams than one would expect if all-stars were randomly distributed. After these finding it is clear that the teams became all star teams because of the skill and talent of the African American players not because of the white players. “By the early 1960s, half of the stars in the league were black, and the number was over 60% by 1967.”(Armour) Meanwhile while this change was happening America started to be increasingly comfortable with nonwhite men in the major leagues. This change started to spread out into America,because like I mentioned before men of color were beating them at the game they thought they conquered. Although, many people would believe or think that these white men would cause rage due to the success of the colored players. But, the case was that slowly they were being accepted because they were helping them win a lot more games and as well as making the game more competitive.The change not only followed other Major league teams but it followed schools segregation in education ended with the court case Brown vs. Board of
Armour explains that “Black players first accounted for 10% of rosters in 1958, reached 20% in 1965, and 28% in 1986.” After Jackie just three months later the second African American man was signed into the major leagues. Within the years many more “colored” players were introduced to teams. Armour find that “more black players on all-star teams than one would expect if all-stars were randomly distributed. After these finding it is clear that the teams became all star teams because of the skill and talent of the African American players not because of the white players. “By the early 1960s, half of the stars in the league were black, and the number was over 60% by 1967.”(Armour) Meanwhile while this change was happening America started to be increasingly comfortable with nonwhite men in the major leagues. This change started to spread out into America,because like I mentioned before men of color were beating them at the game they thought they conquered. Although, many people would believe or think that these white men would cause rage due to the success of the colored players. But, the case was that slowly they were being accepted because they were helping them win a lot more games and as well as making the game more competitive.The change not only followed other Major league teams but it followed schools segregation in education ended with the court case Brown vs. Board of