Commonplace Topic

For commonplace, I am going to be writing about how Branch Rickey, the manager of the Dodger's, was the leading figure in desegregating baseball instead of Jackie Robinson.  This idea originally came to mind when I played against kids of other races in sports when I was younger.  This made me sort of curious as to how they first started intermixing the different races and how hard that must have been for them kids to try to do.  When I was younger, I was mostly told that it was Jackie Robinson that started the desegregation of baseball.  I became curious of this because I wondered how Robinson could be the starting influence when blacks and whites weren't getting along at that time.  He wouldn't be able to just join a team by himself.  After doing a little research, I found that it was Branch Rickey's bold move that initiated the desegregation.  Robinson needed a manager that was willing to run the tables and make this jump into history.  Rickey went against a lot of people's beleifs on the subject and he created a lot of enemies.  Without the this dramatic move by one of the managers, African Americans may have never started playing in what was an all white league at that time.