Sentence examples for integration of baseball from inspiring English sources

Frick adamantly supported Robinson and the integration of baseball.

BEYOND THE SHADOW OF THE SENATORS The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball.

Yes, integration of baseball was inevitable, but one could not imagine a smoother, more elegant bridge to it than the Brooklyn one constructed by Rickey and Robinson.

His showmanship and popularity caused white baseball fans to take greater notice of the players in the Negro leagues, which perhaps hastened the integration of baseball.

The author of "Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball," Snyder is a sure-handed and meticulous guide.

Restraint and circumspection — by Rickey, by the black fans who thronged both Ebbets Field and other parks, by most of the press, and, of course, by Robinson — marked the integration of baseball more than any confrontation did.

Several major league teams either discussed or attempted the racial integration of professional baseball in the 1940s.

In November 1943, Landis agreed after some persuasion that black sportswriter Sam Lacy should make a case for integration of organized baseball before the owners' annual meeting.

Duchovny decided to make the lead guest character black and set the story before the integration of the baseball leagues, inspired by Jackie Robinson, the first black player who was accepted into the Major Leagues in the 1940s.

Much has been written about his role in the integration of major league baseball, and Jimmy Breslin's slim biography, "Branch Rickey," breaks no new factual ground.

In his hands, Jackie Robinson's integration of major league baseball in 1947 is also the story of American radicalism, the cold war and the demise of various black institutions.