The Case for Integration in Baseball
90 years ago today, on Feb 8, 1933, sports writer Jimmy Powers started the conversation in the New York Daily News
INTRODUCTION from The Sports Time Traveler™
I was traveling around in Manhattan exactly 90 years ago this morning and picked up a copy of the New York Daily News. The back page had caught my attention. There was a large picture of Babe Ruth standing in front of a giant birthday cake made to look like a baseball stadium. The Babe had turned 39 years ol…