Latin American Ballplayer Need A Bill Of Rights By Robert Boyle

The articles Latin American ballplayer Need a Bill of Rights by Felipe Alou and Troubling the Waters by Robert Boyle are great examples in examining inequalities in baseball. Labor and economics inequalities are labor relations between players and management. Race inequalities are in terms of who gets access to certain things, labor conditions and pay earnings. Culture can be the basis of creating inequalities on and off the field. When looking at the poles between black and whites, where is the line of starting discrimination. Where does one say “Okay this individual is too dark and consider black” while an individual of the same race can be categorized as white for his skin tone being lighter?

A major reason that ignited inequalities

During the years 1889 - 1946 no black players were allowed to play in the major league but there were 54 Latinos playing in the white major league during those years. Bud Fowler, a black baseball player was quoted during an interview with Sporting Life in 1895 saying, “My skin is against me. If I had not been quite so black, I might have caught on as a Spaniard or something of that kind. The race prejudice is so strong that my black skin barred me.” In the article Troubling the Waters by Robert Boyle, he states, “The Washington Senators had long demonstrated a preference for Latino over African American players, the Senators had five Latinos perform on its 1959 squad and only one African American” (Boyle, 203). Not only was race and inequality in baseball it was starting to put African Americans against Latinos. Boyle writes, “They (African Americans) were angered when dark skinned Latinos shunned them inside or outside the clubhouse, or when Latinos did not turn to them for guidance in their culture adjustment. A few African Americans players took these actions as an affront, believing Latinos were trying to avoid identifying as ‘colored’ players” (Boyle,