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tdkearns wrote:I’m playing in a league where each team had a group of NeL players as it’s core. (There aren’t enough NeL players to require full rosters.) which lead me to think about trying to exclude the most well-known racists players from the league. Ben Chapman is famous of course because of the movie. But in a few internet searches I can’t find a list which is kind of curious and maybe a project for you researchers and historians out there. Does anyone know of a reliable list of the worst baseball playing racists?
Dixie Walker got most of the print opposing Jackie Robinson, but Bobby Bragan, Carl Furillo and Kirby Higbe led the petition drive to keep JRob out of the Majors.
https://www.johnpielli.com/bases-empty- ... generation