Yesterday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the day the Boston Red Sox became an integrated team, when Pumpsie Green was sent in as a pinch runner. Howard Bryant, author of Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, writes about the anniversary at ESPN, noting that not only did the team pass on signing Jackie Robinson–the first African-American player in Major League Baseball– they didn’t even integrate until after Robinson retired from the game, and were the last team in baseball to do so. Read Bryant’s piece at ESPN here.
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