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- Title
The Dodgers' First Choice Wasn't Jackie Robinson.
- Authors
KREUZ, JIM
- Abstract
For decades baseball historians have known about, and largely discounted, the story that the Brooklyn Dodgers had interest in the great black Cuban player Silvio García before turning their attention to Jackie Robinson. Many accounts suggest that the courtship ended abruptly when Branch Rickey asked García how he would respond to being slapped by a white player and García answered, "I kill him!" But mounting evidence indicates that the Dodgers not only scouted García but tried, twice, to sign him. In addition, new information suggests that it was Tom Greenwade, not Clyde Sukeforth, who made the call for Robinson's signing.
- Subjects
BASEBALL; BROOKLYN Dodgers (Baseball team); GARCIA, Silvio; BLACK baseball players; BASEBALL draft; BASEBALL player recruiting; TWENTIETH century; UNITED States history
- Publication
Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues, 2014, Vol 7, p114
- ISSN
1939-8484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BLB.7.114