Most Important person in Baseball.

[cruzg24]

Who do you guys think was the most important person for baseball ever? And Why?

A single black man was presented an opportunity to change sports forever: to make it 1 black man and 399 white. I'm going with Jackie Robinson, not only the way he handled himself when teammates were threatening with leaving the team Jackie belonged to, as well as the racism he had to deal with at every city. But also because it changed the view of baseball and helped other non-white players to enter baseball. Such as hispanics and asians after him. Jackie is a symbol of great triumph when faced with great odds. He was a great player who always gave his best and it showed on the field. His great assets were tenacity and a knack for getting under an opponent's skin. Jackie Robinson had more power than Congress to help break the chains that bound the descendants of slavery to lives of inequity and despair, wrote one prominent black journalist. Thousands of black men and women traveled to great distances to get a glimpse of him, as if to see for themselves that he was real, to share his dignity and glory, to watch this proud, defiant man, the grandson of slaves, stake a claim on their behalf to what Langston Hughes called "the dream deferred."

[Chubz]

Babe Ruth. If Ruth had not been around, baseball might not be what it is today. THis isn't downplaying the significance of Jackie at all. Babe Ruth is the reason why baseball has evolved from the first organized baseball game in Hoboken, NJ to what it is today