Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.