why did the policy change to not allow blacks to play baseball in the major leagues after doing it in the 19th

Answer 1

Cap Anson was one of the first superstar players in the late 1880's. He was very influential and he was very racist. He refused to play with black ball players and he was one of the first to have the clout to make sure they never played on his team.

We cannot blame Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis for starting this travesty. While he was instrumental in maintaining the unofficial color barrier, he did not become Commissioner until after the Black Sox Scandal; he started the next year in 1920.

Answer 2

There never was anything on the books that said that blacks could not play, like one answerer said Landis was a racist, and he said no blacks would play, but it was never written down or codified into the rules, it was a de facto law. Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first black to play in the majors as we know it. It took someone with the cojones of Branch Rickey to do have a black player on his team. It was also a shrewd business move more and more blacks were earning money and had it to spend so he figured he could attract blacks and other minorities to the parks by featuring them, and the talent pool of black players was untapped at that time and Rickey figured that he could get a jump on that. So it was not all about altruism for Rickey, it was both a sharp business move and a realization that it was going to happen soon so why a not be the first to do it and get a jump on the other owners, and a little bit of forward thinking and civil rights leadership.

Answer 3

Judge Kenisaw Mountain Landis who was the first commisioner of baseball (same man who banned Joe Jackson, and the other Black Sox from the Hall of Fame) was a strong racist, and insisted that blacks not be able to play while he was commisioner. He died in 1944, just a few years before the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson. He was also involved in a case that banned African American boxer Jack Johnson, charging him with transporting a white women over state borders.

Answer 4

Are you saing that they let them play in the 1800's and then stopped letting them in the early 1900's? If so I do not know why but thought I would clarify the question for other people.

Answer 5

Racism. Really, there's nothing more to it than that.

Answer 6

what are you talking about

Answer 7

What are you talking about???