Some day a title like the one below will not catch people’s eye. Unfortunately, there are still many people alive who remember integration resistance in MLB. Fortunately, those days are over.
Thomas Yawkey, the Red Sox Owner Who Resisted Integration
By 1959, even the local N.H.L. team, the Bruins, had employed a black player, Willie O’Ree. But not the Red Sox. As Robinson, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Elston Howard helped their teams win championships in the 1950s, the Red Sox – with Ted Williams in his later prime – never finished first during that decade.
