MLB's only black manager pauses to remember Jackie Robinson's impact
Posted Apr 15, 2015
If not a bridge in Selma, then a bus in Montgomery, a lunch counter in Greensboro, a ballpark in Brooklyn, or on a thousand streets in a hundred towns. It is worth the thought, "Who would I have been then?" Lloyd McClendon, 56-year-old manager of the Seattle Mariners, star in 1971 of what is believed to be the first all-black team to reach the Little League World Series, product of the tough, steel town of Gary, Ind., pushed his chair back slightly.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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