Sentence examples for black ballplayer from inspiring English sources

He recalled that during a trip to South Bend, Ind., to play Notre Dame, the team's only black ballplayer, Charles Thomas, was denied a room.

She wanted the Negro Leagues to become a minor league for professional baseball, to be the special place to create the black ballplayer.

According to Rickey, his first whiff of prejudice came in 1904, during his time as a student-coach at Ohio Wesleyan University, when a black ballplayer was denied access to a hotel.

Asked what it was like to be a black ballplayer in the 1950s, he plucked out a sunny memory of those days and spun it to suggest that although segregation was still in force in many places, it was actually a boon to him and the other black players.

When Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers wanted to break major league baseball's color line in 1947, he chose Jackie Robinson, not simply because he was a great black ballplayer -- there were greater black stars -- but because he had experience inside white institutions.

Other teams, however, had more serious interest in signing a black ballplayer.

"And I remember Barney asking the guy why the Yankees didn't have any black ballplayers.

In 1968, ballplayers, particularly black ballplayers in near-Southern cities like St . Louis did not talk outrageously to the press.

"These people just loved what they did, and they worked together to make something good," she said, referring to the black ballplayers.

Although previous attempts to establish a league for black ballplayers and fans had failed, the NNL thrived under Foster's guidance.

His remark set off an uproar, even at a time when the Yankees and other major league teams did not field black ballplayers.