Whether New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson was joking around, as he insisted, or used Jackie Robinson’s name in a “racist” manner, as White Sox manager Tony La Russa claimed, it was certain to be a hot button debate throughout baseball.
Jackie Robinson was in headlines this weekend when New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson referred to Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson as “Jackie” during Saturday’s game, igniting a brouhaha between the teams.
Kennedy wrote that Rickey wanted Barber to know of his plan to integrate the Dodgers so Barber could look for another job if the broadcaster felt he couldn’t call a game with white and Black players. After the meeting, Barber went home and told his wife, Lylah, what Rickey had said, then informed her he was going to leave the Dodgers.
Barber decided to stay and report what he saw. During a 1949 broadcast in St. Louis, he informed listeners that Robinson and two other Black players were forced to stay in an inferior hotel in town without air conditioning. The exhibit at the Hall of Fame museum, previously called “Pride and Passion,” has been renamed “Ideals and Injustices,” a better description of the game’s refusal to integrate until Rickey’s bold move in 1947.
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