How did MLB get to point where no African American players on a World Series

Before the main hitter toes the soil in Houston for Game 1 of the Worldwide championship on Friday night,

Significant Association Baseball will have recorded a disgraceful piece of history: interestingly beginning around 1950,

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there probably won't be a solitary American-conceived Dark player on one or the other lineup.

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I don't feel that is something that baseball ought to be glad for. It looks awful," Astros supervisor Dusty Dough puncher Jr. told the Related Press.

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It tells individuals that it didn't require a year or even 10 years to arrive at this point.

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For Philadelphia particularly, it's an unmistakable change from the last time the Phillies were in the Worldwide championship in 2008

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when they won with two Dark, MVP-winning infielders in Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard.

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52 players for the Astros and Phillies. Not a solitary one of African American legacy.

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For an association that every year observes Jackie Robinson, who turned into the main Dark player in the game's cutting edge time in 1947

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it's anything but a decent look. Yet, would it be a good idea for it to be a shock?

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Before the main hitter toes the soil in Houston for Game 1 of the Worldwide championship on Friday night,

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Significant Association Baseball will have recorded a disgraceful piece of history: interestingly beginning around 1950,

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there probably won't be a solitary American-conceived Dark player on one or the other lineup.

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I don't feel that is something that baseball ought to be glad for. It looks awful," Astros supervisor Dusty Dough puncher Jr. told the Related Press.

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It tells individuals that it didn't require a year or even 10 years to arrive at this point.

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For Philadelphia particularly, it's an unmistakable change from the last time the Phillies were in the Worldwide championship in 2008

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when they won with two Dark, MVP-winning infielders in Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard.

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52 players for the Astros and Phillies. Not a solitary one of African American legacy.

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For an association that every year observes Jackie Robinson, who turned into the main Dark player in the game's cutting edge time in 1947

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it's anything but a decent look. Yet, would it be a good idea for it to be a shock?

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