Hopkinton White Man Played For Black Baseball Team In 1946
By admin on Monday, 2nd March 2009USA – Several months before Jackie Robinson, Paul Phipps broke his own color barrier in baseball.
The year was 1946. After battling the Japanese on Saipan and Iwo Jima as a Marine officer, Phipps received an assignment to oversee sports at separate bases in North Carolina, one for white soldiers like him and one for blacks.
Down a catcher, a black team asked him to join. He accepted.
A year later, a former Army officer named Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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