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Slavery was not legal anywhere in the US in 1886.

• boomboomsubban 4y ago
  *except prison.
• hettygreen 4y ago
  You're right, my bad. Was super-fresh though, and I can't imagine everyone just magically got along by 1886.
  • egypturnash 4y ago
    Baseball was thoroughly segregated by skin color until 1944, when the first Major League Baseball commissioner (who was highly opposed to integration) died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_league_baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_league_baseball
    • boomboomsubban 4y ago
      You're largely right, but in 1886 there were several black players in the minor leagues, one of them having spent 1884 in the MLB. The total segregation didn't begin until 1888. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker
      • egypturnash 4y ago
        Ah, thanks. My knowledge of baseball history mostly stops at “I read an article about the Negro League in Smithsonian Magazine once and it stuck in my head well enough to let me dig it out of Wikipedia for this conversation”. :)