During Jackie Robinson’s impactful years of baseball, he carried the weight of discrimination and prejudice on his shoulders. For example, Jaime C. Harris states, “And maybe, just maybe, the significance of the moment will now reverberate as loudly as Jackie’s soul did when he heard the cries of "n*****" and "monkey" from the malicious mouths assembled on April 15, 1947, to deride his every action.” Despite cries of racial slurs from the mouths of spectators, Jackie Robinson forever changed the diversity we see in baseball today as he was the first black person to ever step foot on an MLB diamond. Discrimination and prejudice throughout the 1900s in the MLB wasn’t only directed towards blacks. Hispanics were also apart of the bias times in Major League Baseball. In his book Baseball Beyond Borders, Frank P. Jozsa Jr. states, “Clemente was, of course, …show more content…
For example, 3 white players with the St. Louis baseball club decided they wouldn’t get on the field with Jackie. These players had to be threatened about their baseball careers by the head of the MLB to step on the field with him (ESPN Classic: Jackie Robinson: Amazing MLB Baseball Sports Documentary). Situations and instances similar to this created negative attitudes towards these players throughout the entire league. In effect, these negative attitudes could eventually lead to discriminatory actions. For example, Frank P. Jozsa states, “For much of his career, some highly sympathetic sportswriters persistently quoted Clemente’s heavily accented English utterances phonetically (Jozsa, 77).” This relates to Aronson’s second and third pillars because Clemente inherited this trait, therefore it could not change (Aronson, 3). Since this trait couldn’t change, these sportswriters attitudes towards Clemente’s accent eventually turned into