The campaign to integrate baseball, which culminated 65 years ago today with Jackie Robinson taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time, is often portrayed as a lonely struggle waged by Robinson and a few allies.
Lamb, a professor at the College of Charleston, is author of “Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball. ”
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