Barriers Quote by Harrison Ford

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

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

— Jackie Robinson

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

— Bob Feller

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

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

— Lou Gehrig

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is

— Reggie Jackson

“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player from the…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

— Chad Harbach

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

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

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

— Branch Rickey

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

— Reggie Jackson