When Jackie opened the door, these men walked through
by Eric Blum from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5Y75F)
It took 2,559 days after Jackie Robinson's debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers for Major League Baseball to have its 42nd Black player appear in a game. Those seven years and two days saw 11 of the league's 16 franchises integrate. The Boston Red Sox were the last to do so with Pumpsie Green in July 1959, more than five...