USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did the New York Giants’ (baseball) manager attempt to get a black man into baseball?
A
He had him wear makeup over his skin.
B
He labeled him the best baseball player he had ever seen.
C
He filed a legal suit against the league for discrimination.
D
He described him as a Native American, rather than a black person.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Baseball also lost Black talent because America’s structural inequalities had taken their toll on the inner city game. In the late 1970s, youth coaches noted that while the sport was doing fine in the mostly White suburbs, inner cities struggled to field teams from the Little League to high school levels.

Detailed explanation-2: -Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first African American to play pro baseball, six decades before Jackie Robinson. The legacy of Moses “Fleet” Fleetwood Walker as the first African-American to play professional baseball is changing the narrative of sports history.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sixty-three years before Jackie Robinson became the first African American in the modern era to play in a Major League Baseball game, Moses Fleetwood Walker debuted in the league on May 1, 1884, with the Toledo Blue Stockings in a 5-1 loss against the Louisville Eclipse.

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