Sport: The Brown Bombers

Since the Brooklyn Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson up from their Montreal farm club in 1947 to break major league baseball's color bar, the National League has had a virtual corner on talented Negro players. Seven of its top ten batters, its top four home-run hitters, its top four in runs-batted-in are colored; the American League has but one Negro among its top ten batters, New York's Elston Howard, none among the leaders in the other two categories. Though Negroes make up roughly 17% of the 200 players on National League rosters, this year's All-Star squad is 36% Negro. Last week, in...

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