Party members such as Worker sportswriters saw ending discrimination in baseball as a way to make a truly revolutionary change in American society. Attacking it with an impassioned and often coarse approach that characterized Communist propaganda, the Communist writers consistently argued for the end of Jim Crow in baseball. He s got to earn his few cents. Nothing is too small. You spot a few Negro fans.
Negro workers make good athletes.
The Black Yankees are fine semi-pro players. But the big leagues will not admit Negro players. There is something else to chalk up against capitalist controlled sports. The issue of African-American participating in all facets of American society open to whites was as much a concern of the sports staff of the Worker as it was of the paper's news staff. The sports coverage quickly became a popular feature for Worker readers, and by 1936 was granted one entire page.