Twenty years later the Hall relented, sort of. It would let in one black a year based on his record in the old Negro Leagues, starting of course with Satchel, but it would be to a wing separate from other honorees. “This notion of Jim Crow in Baseball’s Heaven is appalling,” Jim Murray wrote in 1971 in the Los Angeles Times. “What is this—1840? Either let him in the front of the Hall—or move the damn thing to Mississippi.”
