Thanks, tdkearns, for posting your list. I do have one query—regarding Bobby Bragan. Bragan did get off to a bad start when Branch Rickey broke the color line with Jackie Robinson and in the process made Jackie into Bragan's teammate on the Dodgers. However, according to every source I've consulted, Alabama-born Bragan swiftly changed his mind and became one of Jackie's strongest supporters.
As Wikipedia states it:
Bragan had clashed with Rickey in 1947 over the Dodgers' breaking of the baseball color line after the big-league debut of Jackie Robinson. Bragan—the Dodgers' second-string catcher at the time—was one of a group of white players, largely from the American South, who signed a petition against Robinson's presence. He even asked Rickey to trade him. But Bragan quickly relented. "After just one road trip, I saw the quality of Jackie the man and the player", Bragan told MLB.com in 2005. "I told Mr. Rickey I had changed my mind and I was honored to be a teammate of Jackie Robinson." When Bragan attended Rickey's funeral in 1965, he stated he decided to attend because, "Branch Rickey made me a better man."[10]
Far from dumping Bragan, as he did folks like Dixie Walker, Rickey continued to support Bragan's career by making him a minor league manager in the Dodger system. Wikipedia adds:
As a manager, Bragan earned a reputation for "color-blindedness." When he was the skipper of the Dodgers' Triple-A Spokane Indians PCL farm club in 1959, he played a pivotal role in helping Maury Wills, a speedy African-American shortstop, rise to Major League stardom. Wills' baseball career had stalled in the Dodgers' farm system until he learned to switch hit under Bragan. Said the Dodgers' then-general manager, Buzzie Bavasi, "Bobby would call six times a day and tell me over again how Wills had learned to switch-hit and how he was a great team leader, off and on the field, and how I was absolutely nuts if I didn't bring him up right away."[11]
And the rest is history.
So, in Bragan's case, at least, he seems to have learned an important lesson, and learned it quickly and permanently. Perhaps he doesn't belong on the same list with such virtulent racists as Powell, Chapman,and--perhaps worst of all-- Anson?