HIST 3838 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: White Supremacy, Sept, Great Offensive
13 Jan 2016
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Playing and paying to win: the business of sport. 7, o"brien, "we want a pennant, not a white team": How boston"s ethnic and racial history shaped the red sox . The sox were the last team to integrate brining elijah green up the major in 1959. Teams like the dodgers and the yankees were winning the world series through the 50s and 60s with players like robinson and willie mays and roy campanella, the sox were coming 4th and. Hard for black players to attain a tryout in the 1940s as the councilmen pressured the gm and. He was amazing using the sox try out but wasn"t hired bc of colour, instead dodgers picked. Only when the tigers obtained virgil did the sox feel the pressure to bring a black player into. Green was excluded from team hotel gatherings and being sent to the minors even he hit a . 444.
