Might not have been otherwise allowed to play in organized baseball. To the owners voted that nomar contract be extended to nonwhite players. Be that there were no africanamerican players, they specifically retired the cuban players that played on a new britain club. So the manager of the new britain team had to travel down to havana to verify the ancestry of his four cuban players in order for them to play in the 1909 season. His results were a verified date in like african ancestry and the elders. They said that the drug did have a mother who appeared to have african ancestry and therefore went down from update. Then the cuban stars performed quite well in 1909. So while the black baseball circuit in the cuban link to Charles Senate seat got word of this talented cuban. He invites him to spring training. Predrawn performs well for the white sox. What we saw then was struck comiskey said im not going to make that Risk Assessment or management or whatever to assign this ballplayer beca
Next, from 18 to help texas book festival in austin, discussion went off there is Ricardo Ainslie and Alfredo Corchado on mexico. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming tonight. We are happy to be here at the texas book will. They asked me to tell everyone, please turn off cell phones to rejoin her of the conversations. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is Ricardo Ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had the unfortunate tension in recent years of being not only the most violent place in mexico, but by some accounts the most spineless in the world. He tells the story of this descent into dar