Боја бејзбола– (Мит о томе) како је интегрисана МЛБ
The Color of Baseball: (The Myth About) How MLB Was Integrated

Summary/Abstract: Baseball is a sport perceived locally - in the USA - as well as globally, almost in the sense of objective correlative to concepts of “America” and “American”. The most important professional competition in baseball is Major League Baseball (MLB), and it has existed for almost a century and a half. On the 15th of April in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the MLB. Americans define this as an integration of baseball or as a turnaround point in the process of breaking the color barrier. In this text I observe exactly this procedurality of events, that is the myth-making instrumentalization of events which signify the whole process. I maintain this by showing how did racial segregation in American baseball took place, how it was carried out, and how the fight was fought and won against it. Furthermore, I argue that such a discourse consists of elements similar to those which myths are built of - elements such as heroic actors and great deeds which manage to reverse the course of history. Also, they are transmitted in a similar fashion, by presenting historical facts as patterns, and not as a causal chain of events affected by different socio-cultural circumstances.

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