You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.
I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.
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