- Stevens said that what truly prevented Ruth from a shot at managing was the fear that he would have brought in black players, years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. “Daddy would have had blacks on his team, definitely,” Stevens said. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/sports/baseball/yankees-home-at-the-other-house-that-ruth-built.html?ref=sports&_r=1 31 comments baseball
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