What is it about?

The remembrance of a young white pre-teen's first experience of seeing an all-Black baseball game in the 1950's and how it relates to the racial tensions of our current times.

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Why is it important?

Subtly refutes some racial stereotypes and illustrates how American society has changed from the 1950's, while at the same time has remained the same.

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This page is a summary of: Whites, Blacks, and the Homestead Grays, NINE A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, January 2019, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/nin.2019.0033.
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