Baseball's Forgotten Black Heroes

In 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the game of baseball by becoming the first black player on a modern day major league team. Chicago native Bill Leibfoth shares his book "Baseball’s Forgotten Black Heroes." Learn the story of Jackie Robinson and the seventeen players who followed him. These Black Heroes challenged the status quo and policies of team owners and were part of the first wave of black players who played on the sixteen major league teams that existed in 1947. This program will be posted to the library's YouTube and Facebook pages.