04-20-2004, 10:23 AM
Branch Rickey, owner of the Dodgers, was the man who believed a black man could succeed in baseball. He signed Jackie Robinson and became sort of a mentor to him. Now maybe we can look at a few people like Rickey, or even the commissioner of baseball for allowing the move, but I don't think you can just note a few people as desegregationists and say that baseball was better. WHile Jackie got his job, there are other stories outside of the world of baseball where other black men were being allowed to slowly start to work in places which were primarily white.