Before a conference today, I had time to visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Musuem, which is a great place to view an important part of our nation's history.
I was visiting during a field trip by some elementary school students who found the statues and model playing field much more fascinating than the timeline of the Leagues' history. Their teacher, a rather humorless woman, insisted they walk past the individual lockers with uniforms before seeing the "Field of Dreams" with the statue of historic all-time Negro League greats.
I kind of wanted to ask her why she was so insistent. The kids simply couldn't understand a world in which someone could be denied the chance to play baseball at the highest level just because of the color of his skin. Let it go, lady; just let them enjoy the famous statues and the cool baseball memorabilia without regard to the color of the players' skins. This one's a win.
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