Hornsby had predicted from the start that bringing blacks into baseball would be a disaster, and he did his best to ensure it was. Satchel, as the only black on the Browns, bore the brunt of that bigotry. When Hornsby fined the pitcher for missing an exhibition game in Corpus Christi, Texas, it was not another case of Satchel living by his own clock. It was Jim Crow flexing his muscle, with the bus driver who transported players from the train station to the hotel barring Satchel from boarding.
