AH Baseball challenge - Full integration

Many people build up Jackie Robinson for breaking the color barrier in baseball but what isnt widely known is that many people in black baseball were against it. Not that they didn't want integration, but they wanted whole teams (all the players, coaches, managers, office staff, etc...)to be admitted into major league baseball as equals.

The way it worked out is that after Jackie Robinson many other top players left the Negro leagues for the majors as they cherry picked the best talent and within a few years Negro baseball folded and all the coaches and support staff were out of work. It wasnt until much later did the majors start hiring blacks as coaches and other support staff.

But what if they had held out? What if entire black teams like the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays were admitted to the major leagues and were soon vying for the pennants alongside the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals?

Note - years later this is just what happened in football when they merged the NFL with the AFL and in basketball when they merged the NBA with the ABA.
 
I have been considering something similar, so I'm happy to see this thread.

I don't think that it would be be possible for immediate full integration realistically. Consider how long it took for Boston to integrate-1959, 12 years after Robinson. Brooklyn was lucky in that it had Branch Rickey, who was forward thinking enough to actually consider it.

I think that the best you could do would be a required black player, 1 guy, on every team. By that I mean the utter best of the best, the top-level, major-league ready talent from the Negro Leagues being sent to every team. If it's portrayed as a talent issue, you might get away with it.
 
I have been considering something similar, so I'm happy to see this thread.

I don't think that it would be be possible for immediate full integration realistically. Consider how long it took for Boston to integrate-1959, 12 years after Robinson. Brooklyn was lucky in that it had Branch Rickey, who was forward thinking enough to actually consider it.

I think that the best you could do would be a required black player, 1 guy, on every team. By that I mean the utter best of the best, the top-level, major-league ready talent from the Negro Leagues being sent to every team. If it's portrayed as a talent issue, you might get away with it.

Well that was the problem. The majors took all the talent and left the league to whither.
 
After further consideration....It's not possible. I know that defeats the purpose of the challenge, but I don't see a way in which it can be done. Sorry.
 
The one way I can see it is if Jackie Robinson would have put his foot down and his job on the line and told them he would quit unless they would agree to integrate the leagues together. At least force them to do a trial run of maybe 5 years.
 
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