As a kid growing up in Detroit in the 1950s and ‘60s, David Roberts loved baseball. He lived a few miles from the Detroit Tigers’ home stadium. But young Dave was a Cleveland Indians fan – because his grandfather told him the Tigers, due to racist ownership, had been one of the last Major League Baseball teams to sign a Black player. Cleveland, meanwhile, had integrated the American League in 1947 with Larry Doby, a few months after Jackie Robi…
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