Earlier this year there was a ceremony in Georgia at the birthplace of Jackie Robinson. The plaque showing where his birthplace was had been vandalized. MLB felt it should be replaced and donated 40,000 dollars for a new plaque to be placed there, and in another location near the center of Cairo, Georgia, where he was born. I watched the ceremony on MLB.TV.
But that also got me thinking about the first Black player to play in the American League, Larry Doby. Did he face the same kind of discrimination that Jackie did? How did he handle the pressure?