St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-10-13
Another white" World Series, Negroes
Are Still Barred from Big Leagues; Is There
"Deul" Existing Against Them?
Nv DON LEIGHRITR

YORK-Anoher just around corner
the ST. Louis Cardinals the National League
champion Yankees,
Browns the Detroit geas the principals the sports
every promises everything
the Negro the eups participating
This in years. there will be Josh Gibson
cambridge Satche Paige no Roy Cpnela no ferris McDu
Frank Coimbre Buddy
perform mainly because the vicious
minded policies of the Major Leagues Negroes and
chauvnist selfish attitude the
Negro clubs that join hands keeping firmly place
against encrOachment of qualified Negro players.
Lands at
Judge Knasaw Mountain Land high baseball
handled the affairs of organized baseball since with
he has decisions quarters arbitrary
he has performed his duties hghhanded BELTS
but he has
the American ideal seeing that justice
deserving baseball players who could be candidates like the
Yankees the Browns Tigers solely
Negro has been the light national
pame under conditions that exist professional baseball circles but
the Negro
Player polls taken among white baseball managers
reveal that the majority of white players have objections Negro
teammates
transportation railways
stany being battered down. the squawk about travelling with
white clubs doesn't hold Neither the beef hotel
modaons Negro citizens stop big
as Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York
Negro athletes fratenze with
collegiate football basketball and track without incident Restaurant
color lines being thrown aside The ag ugaboo Negro
and white in contact doesn't exist baseball since
and off the field without contact with the fans
Age-Old White Supremacy
With apparent
m part OF h MAJOR League club owners and OFFICIALS that Negroes at
all cost must be kept out of organized baseball? One almost
certain be the aged white theory that flourish
ing extensively South Negro
to play baseball with white big league tears down the
cherished theories of the yhes that things
unatanabe for Negroes To allow Negro play big league base
ball would bad for the anNegro AngoSaxon
to lower the immigration bars allow the California
flooded with Chinese and other Orientals.
Negro operators ball Negro players
uniforms the rather stupid assumption that their investment will be
endangered They have the notion that the big leagues decide
Negroes opportunity they will start radng their rosters taking
their star players and giving them redress at all.
Then there is the selfish desire latent the club owners
bosom in which he wants to perpuate and rich off institution
built Jim Crow condition In other words long the white
bar Negroes and Negroes ago
the plan to keep the ball rolling that direction.
Toward this end that find Negro
saying absolutely nothing this amportan question while
they most of the major league their while the big
aguers the road Whether understanding been reached
with the major leagues to the that
anything to further the campaign ngate Negro bapyrs into
leagues while enjoying the
park not matter of complete record However, Cum Pose
secretary of the Negro National
meeting of the circuit which the idea
Whatever the state of affairs between the and the
operators the colored clubs
play World Series this other facility
at the all sports citizens
bear the situation through
lesson in democracy