While Major League Baseball has a well deserved reputation for being the most conservative of America’s major sports, there’s a hidden history of rebellion in organized baseball. A number of ball players and others connected to the sport have spoken out and resisted and acted to protest injustices both on and off the field for issues of race, gender, sexuality, workers rights and American Empire.
— Read on sfpl.org/events/2022/06/18/author-robert-elias-major-league-rebels-baseball-radicals-field