GAMECHANGERS: This is the fourth in a series of stories chronicling the Bay Area’s rich history of sports figures fighting for equality. Click here for a look at what Tommie Smith and John Carlos — the enduring emblems of athlete protest — think about today’s movement, what Curt Flood did for racial equity with his fight for free agency in baseball and how USF’s Phil Woolpert pushed the racial boundaries in NCAA basketball.
How was a quiet, self-effacing baseball owner like Horace C. Stoneham sup. . .