I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
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It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
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I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
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Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
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