Thread: The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration
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Old 09-24-2023, 10:58 AM
ThomasL ThomasL is offline
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I dont think Frommer should have edited Powell's actual quote, he sanitized it and the that takes away from gravity of it and historical context of this by doing so

For those that have never heard this story before...Powell did not say "Black people" (as you can imagine). Here is a 1938 article about Landis suspension of Powell for saying it with what he actually said:
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