Baseball Quote by Ferguson Jenkins

We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major…

— Louis Farrakhan

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who…

— Jackie Robinson

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans…

— Monte Irvin

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch…

— Walter Dean Myers

I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice…

— Mick Foley

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on…

— Matt Kemp

[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them:…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball,…

— Buck Leonard

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.…

— Hank Aaron

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we…

— Jackie Robinson

I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids…

— Ken Griffey Jr

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

— Ishmael Reed