"Who broke baseball's ""color barrier"" in 1947?"
Baseball Card Adventures to do a book report on Jackie Robinson for black history month. Joe has had a horrible baseball game and his dad felt sorry for Joe and gave him his 1947 Jackie Robinson baseball card. Joe went back in time on the exact day Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier between the black league and the white league. Joe experiences what it is like to be an African American in a segregated society when he travels back to 1947 to watch Jackie Robinson play, and while going back in time he himself turns black. He tries to bring back a
Baseball color line under-representation of African-American players in U.S. baseball ended during the early years of the civil rights movement, but their representation has fallen in recent years and as of 2010 was lower than in 1959 when the hiring of black players was still very controversial. Baseball color line The Color Line, also known as the Color Barrier, in American baseball excluded players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established). Racial segregation in professional baseball was sometimes called a