Baseball is America's national pastime, and rightfully so. For nearly six months of the year baseball floods television screens across America and the globe. But for many decades baseball was separated as white and black baseball. The segregation brought about many African American stars that go sadly unrecognized today. However, baseball was one of the first sports to openly welcome blacks with proper recognition in a national sport.
             Hitting a circular object smaller than nine inches in circumference with a 34 inch wooden stick doesn't sound too hard, but it is. In baseball, batting .300 is considered a good average. That means making contact and safely reaching base three out of ten times is good. Wow, wish I could pull a thirty percent on Rev. Clarks' test and be congratulated on a good job! Let's face it, it won't happen. There is so much skill involved in baseball, simply strength and physical fitness is not enough. Being able to spot a 95 MPH fastball coming out of a pitchers hand from sixty feet six inches and being able to turn on the ball to send it 400 feet is just amazing. Let alone if he can hold back on the following pitch which is a whole twenty MPH slower and still smash it over the outfield wall. It is just mind boggling to see the dexterity most major leaguers possess. Baseball is a very difficult sport to master, yet my Cubbies seem to do better than those Reds every year. For more than half a century baseball was a white only sport. Where would Major League Baseball be without African Americans integrated in baseball today? No Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, or Ken Griffey Jr., these are the players that add
             so much excitement to baseball. Conversely, for many decades blacks were barred from professional baseball. They continued to play the game, but just in their own separate
             leagues. As America grew older, its perilous ways started to change. The two finally became on...