The Integration Of Baseball:The Challenge Of Jackie Robinson
Debate/Diplomacy
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
Opinions people had on Jackie Robinson 1947.
Jules Tygiel claimed that baseball's experiment, Jackie Robinson, greatly affected the
Civil Rights Movement.David Horowitz argued that the integration of major league baseball was an excuse to argue that a free market system always does the right thing in the end. Jackie Robinson was chosen to integrate baseball because he had the strength to not fight back when many racial comments were hurled at him from players and fans alike. To Branch Rickey this is the value he desired the most over talent. One of the first teammates to accept Robinson as an equal was Pee Wee Reese.
Civil Rights Movement.David Horowitz argued that the integration of major league baseball was an excuse to argue that a free market system always does the right thing in the end. Jackie Robinson was chosen to integrate baseball because he had the strength to not fight back when many racial comments were hurled at him from players and fans alike. To Branch Rickey this is the value he desired the most over talent. One of the first teammates to accept Robinson as an equal was Pee Wee Reese.
This shows Jackie Robinson how he was running to home base.
