The San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals -- who are battling for this year's World Series title -- have rosters featuring whites, blacks, Latinos and Asians. Just down the highway from where the Major League Baseball champion will be crowned this week, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum tells a different story -- one of segregation and struggle. While some black players -- like Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in 1947 with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers -- rose to the sport's highest heights, others never made it to the big leagues. Frustrated by the unofficial ban, black players moved to form their own leagues.
Negro League museum tells segregation tale (AFP)
Published October 28, 2014 at 2:40 PM
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