![]() Frozen out of the major as well as the minor leagues in the late 19th century, blacks were forced to form their own leagues. Ironically, with the integration of major league baseball, the death knell was rung for ``blackball.'' In this blunt look at the Negro leagues, Ribowsky (Don't Look Back) unsentimentally chronicles what he calls the penal colony of American baseball. ![]() ![]() Baseball apartheid existed until Jackie Robinson broke that barrier in 1947. ![]()
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