Yesterday, Teaching for Change set the record straight on exactly when the last time post-season baseball took place in Washington, DC. We can’t change baseball segregation of yesterday, but can tell the true story today. From Teaching for Change:
.
“Today, the Washington Nationals will play a baseball playoff game in Washington D.C. against the St. Louis Cardinals. According to the majority of the mainstream media and baseball press, it will be “the first postseason baseball game in Washington since 1933.” They are wrong..This oft repeated line omits the championships of the legendary Homestead Grays, the winners of the last Negro League World Series in 1948. During their era, the Grays were denied the opportunity to play against their white counterparts (except in “exhibitions”), but it is widely acknowledged that some of the greatest ball players of all time played for The Grays: Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and more..The team was started in Homestead, outside of Pittsburgh, but by 1943 they were playing two thirds of their home games in D.C.’s Griffith Stadium (located on the site of the current Howard University Hospital). So, the next time somebody says “After 79 years, playoff baseball returns to D.C.,” tell them they are using biased math and show them the important and graphically stunning book, WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson: http://bit.ly/R7lcgI“
.
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world. By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens. Check out the resources at Teaching for Change right here.
.
TELL GOODELL: NO MORE RACISM
THE LAST CLOSET
