Rickey took the manager aside and said he would move the entire team to another hotel unless the black athlete was accepted. In those days college ball had a few black players. The hotel management registered the coach and team but refused to assign a room to a black player named Charley Thomas. The team went to South Bend, Indiana, for a game. There would be deep resentment, determined opposition, and perhaps even racial violence." "He was convinced he was morally right, and he shrewdly sensed that making the game a truly national one would have healthy financial results." "He took his case before the startled directors of the club, and using persuasive eloquence, he won the first battle in what would be a long and bitter campaign." Which detail best supports the central idea that Branch Rickey understood the risks involved in integrating baseball? "Branch Rickey lost that fight, but when he became the boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, he felt the time for equality in baseball had come." "He knew that achieving it would be terribly difficult. He made certain that word of his plans did not leak out, particularly to the press.
Winning his directors' approval was almost insignificant in contrast to the task which now lay ahead of the Dodger president. He was voted permission to make the Brooklyn club the pioneer in bringing blacks into baseball. He took his case before the startled directors of the club, and using persuasive eloquence, he won the first battle in what would be a long and bitter campaign. He was convinced he was morally right, and he shrewdly sensed that making the game a truly national one would have healthy financial results. There would be deep resentment, determined opposition, and perhaps even racial violence. He knew that achieving it would be terribly difficult. Rickey struggles to control his emotions.īranch Rickey lost that fight, but when he became the boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, he felt the time for equality in baseball had come. Rickey expects people to oppose integration. Could I take all of this and control my temper, remain steadfastly loyal to our ultimate aim? Which is the central idea of this excerpt? Rickey treats Robinson as an equal. I would be called the kind of names which would hurt and infuriate any man. Branch Rickey had to make absolutely sure that I knew what I would face. "Have you got the guts to play the game no matter what happens?" "I think I can play the game, Mr. But let me tell you, it's going to take an awful lot of courage." He was back to the crossroads question that made me start to get angry minutes earlier. If you're a good enough man, we can make this a start in the right direction. That is one of the reasons I've got you here, Robinson.
Maybe one of these days it will be all that counts. "It's all that ought to count," he replied. Read this excerpt from I Never Had It Made.
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