Bill Madden

1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever Bill Madden

"Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how--and, in practice, when--did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball's famous 'black experiment' did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players--Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks--in 1954"--