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ProfessorGAC

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2. Yeah, Way Before

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 24, 2021, 02:46 PM

Oct 2021

Another 17 years before JR played for the Dodgers.
Fun fact: Cap Anson tried to sneak POC on the Cubs before 1900. He tried to pass off one guy as a dark skinned Cuban & another as a Native American.
Priggish newspaper writers did some digging and found out one guy was from Michigan & the other from Kentucky.
That was 50 years before JR.
A couple other teams tried the same between the mid 1880s and 1920. Once that racist Landis became commissioner, nobody tried it again.

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Wasn't that before Jackie Robinson and other Black and POC... brush Oct 2021 #1

Yeah, Way Before ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #2

Unfortunately Wilson's career was cut short by alcoholism. patphil Oct 2021 #3

I dove in a bit but I have a question I can't find an answer to underpants Oct 2021 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author rurallib Oct 2021 #5

Great Question ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #8

I seem to remember reading during my youth that 1930 was a statistical anomaly rurallib Oct 2021 #6

That's a great explanation. Thanks. underpants Oct 2021 #7

Great Find! ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #9