A Civil Rights Game, or Not

            Once upon a time, baseball abided by the rules of Jim Crow, but no more.  Now, MLB honors Jackie Robinson every April 15 (the date in 1947 when Robinson broke the color line) and holds an annual civil rights game.  Too bad Bud Selig has such a narrow definition of civil rights.  What about gays and women in baseball?  Here would have been the perfect venue to address that subject.  Maybe April 15, 2014.

Anyway, the White Sox hosted this year’s festivities and game.  The Negro Leagues’ All Star game took place at Comiskey Park, where Larry Doby broke the color line in the American League on July 5, 1947.  Of course, history is no bar to tearing down a ballpark.

            Josh Phegley hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth as the Sox topped the Rangers, 3-2.