Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the anniversary - TopicsExpress



          

Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the anniversary of the day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson integrated the league, but sportswriter Bill Madden of the New York Daily News says integration was little more than an experiment until the emergence in the mid-1950s of several star African-American players. Madden joins us on Public Radio International (PRI) to discuss his new book, “1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever. .ow.ly/wG3Hd
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:25:06 +0000

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