When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go someplace together after a ball game. Now it is more common. Yes, there has been improvement but some things still remain the way they were. I cannot, for example, go up to a white player and say to him, "Are you for real?" or "Are you concerned with me at all?" But now, once in a while, they will come to you and ask you about it. They don't turn their backs on you like they used to.


As quoted in "Sports Parade" by Milton Richman, in The Hendersonville Times-News (Wednesday, April 21, 1971), p. 9

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When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go someplace together after a ball game. Now it is more common....

When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go someplace together after a ball game. Now it is more common....

When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go someplace together after a ball game. Now it is more common....

When I came here, you seldom saw a black player get together with a white player and go someplace together after a ball game. Now it is more common....