2007-08-24 07:51:50 · 13 answers · asked by chinagateimports 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
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THERE WAS NO BAN !!!
2007-08-24 07:53:20 · update #1
yes , but WHY did they all agree to that???
2007-08-24 08:02:58 · update #2
I'm gonna wing this one without doing research to make sure of the exact facts. The ban really was never a rule, more of a "gentlemen's agreement", and basically started because Cap Anson, player-manager of the Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) refused to play an exhibition game against another team that featured Moses Walker. His exact words, I believe, were "get that n_____ off the field." Because of Anson's power as the manager and star player for the premiere franchise of that day, other owners fell into line with his racist views.
2007-08-24 08:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by artistictrophy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the early 1880s there was a catcher for Baltimore named Moses Fleetwood Walker. He was warming up his pitcher before the game when he was seen by Cap Anson, owner-player-manager for the Chicago team. He yelled, "GET THAT N----- OFF THE FIELD!" He lost the argument that day but in the winter meetings that off-season he got all the owners to agree to to hire blacks. The lady above was right -- if unwritten it was in force like balls and strikes. No owners had the temerity to cross the line until '47. Robinson was the 3rd black legally to play in the majors -- Moses and his part-time outfielder brother Welday being the 1st 2.
2007-08-24 17:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was a old agreement by all of the owners that did not allow Afro-American to play baseball. It was never in writing but was always upheld by the owners and the commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis.
Once Landis died and Happy Chandler became commissioner, Branch Rickey changed baseball forever and signed Jackie Robinson.
2007-08-24 15:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by Numba 1 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There wasn't anything official, but Judge Landis spent his life - he died in 1944 - doing everything he could to prevent blacks and whites from playing baseball together. He stopped several teams from signing prominent black players, and refused to let Bill Veeck become an owner because he knew Veeck would push the rule.
2007-08-24 15:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Simple blacks were thought to be inferior to whites! That is what it is really about. When the Dodgers brought in Jackie they took a lot of heat for it but thank god they took the chance and helped shaped the sports of today.
2007-08-24 15:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by mrjamfy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there wasn't a ban....it was segregation.in 1894...moses and welday walker were actually the first blacks to play on a major league team.....the Toledo blue stockings.
2007-08-24 15:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by mojo569 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the day it was thought a black man could not do anything as well as a white man, it did not matter if you played baseball or swept the floor.
2007-08-24 15:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by rhuzzy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it was because jackie robinson was the first person that was willing to join the league and go through all of the prejudice that anyone that was black would have gotten. many people were scared that they would be treated unfairly and would have been hurt/killed so none didnt. jackie robinson took the risk.
2007-08-24 15:35:25 · answer #8 · answered by ryansraysrule 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
unwritten agreement among owners. all it took was one to break the line and it was over. doby , campy , newk, joe black
monte irvin, mays aand statchel was an old man at that time .
2007-08-24 15:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by MR TADS 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There were no blacks in baseball because people refused to sign them because they were black.
2007-08-24 14:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by Swish 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋