It Was 50 Years Ago Today....

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Sept. 1st 1971

The game that changed baseball......and for the better imho...


Great story.
Very good article...

The day the Pirates fielded the first all-Black and Latino lineup

The Official Site of Major League Baseball

www.mlb.com

 

[catman]

I remember that day. Ken Burns mentions it in his Baseball series as a defining moment in the game.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

I remember that day. Ken Burns mentions it in his Baseball series as a defining moment in the game.

Yep.
That's a great documentary btw....like many of the others he's done.

I was still in HS at the time and remember it too...though somewhat vaguely, but I don't recall making much of it.
To me it was just another game back then, and it was only a few years later that I realized it's significance.

 

[Montalban]

I remember that day. Ken Burns mentions it in his Baseball series as a defining moment in the game.

Nah. Its meaningless. People are people and players are players. Color and nationality mean nothing. Can you play; that is the question.