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In the April of 1945--exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball--liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. Join news reporter Ted Reinstein as he discusses his book Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier. Learn about the communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country and so much more.
Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for “Chronicle,” WCVB-TV/Boston’s award-winning—and America’s longest-running, locally-produced—nightly news magazine since 1997. He is also the author of New England Notebook and Wicked Pissed. Before Brooklyn is his third book.
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