LA Times Today: How baseball’s color barrier was broken in Mexico first
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Professional baseball in Mexico started in the 1920s, some fifty years after the game was introduced here in the U.S.
But Mexico was well ahead of its American counterparts in terms of race relations in the sport.
But Mexico was well ahead of its American counterparts in terms of race relations in the sport.