On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, it’s good to remember how the civil rights leader appreciated the contributions of the men who broke the color line in the majors:
King credited baseball’s African-American pioneers for “shaking the gates” in their own way. As King, mere weeks before his assassination, once told Dodgers great Don Newcombe:
“You’ll never know how easy you and Jackie [Robinson] and [Larry] Doby and Campy [Roy Campanella] made it for me to do my job by what you did on the baseball field.”
Enjoy the holiday!
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1S0ef3e
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