When the Baseball Hall of Fame finally — and belatedly — agreed to admit Negro League stars into its ranks a half-century ago, there was a catch.
. “In a way, it’s baseball’s acknowledgment of past sins. But none of us on the committee feels that any form of segregation is involved in setting up a separate section for the black leagues. There’s nothing segregated about the regular Hall of Fame. We already have Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella there.”
“Getting into the real Hall of Fame is the greatest thing that ever happened to me in baseball,” Paige told UPI when baseball announced the change. “All we players in the Negro Leagues could do was hear about the Hall of Fame. Now it’s real.”, according to the New York Times. Later that day, he told reporters he would like to manage in major league baseball — but that the sport was not yet ready for a Black manager.
But, he added: “I don’t think the White is ready to listen to the colored yet. That’s why they’re afraid to get a Black manager. They’re afraid everybody won’t take orders from him. You know there are plenty of qualified guys around.”
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