Following up on an earlier discussion, I want to try to keep this to "history of the game" but suppose that somehow, the majors did integrate early; the more I look at, the more it look like it would have to come with the inception of the NA and N.L., nd a powerful force behidn it, like Anson in the 1880s.
So, given such an early integration of baseball, how quickly would the country integrate as a whole?
Personally, I think it would be hard, but no impossible, to have it by the 1920s. No Jack Johnson, yet more "likable" personalities would also be big in people's minds. Leaders of that era would have grown up with the game "always" integrated, a 50-year-old in 1920 would never remember a time when it wasn't.
So, given such an early integration of baseball, how quickly would the country integrate as a whole?
Personally, I think it would be hard, but no impossible, to have it by the 1920s. No Jack Johnson, yet more "likable" personalities would also be big in people's minds. Leaders of that era would have grown up with the game "always" integrated, a 50-year-old in 1920 would never remember a time when it wasn't.
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