1964 - Willie Mays Breaks a Major Barrier

60 years ago Willie Mays became the first Black captain in major league baseball history and possibly all American professional sports

INTRODUCTION From The Sports Time Traveler™

One of the most exciting things about sports time travel is when I “discover” something that has been essentially lost in history.

It’s the closest thing I’ve ever felt to what the gold miners outside San Francisco must have felt like in 1849.

It’s fitting then that I found one such gem yesterday while I was trav…