Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!marvinm From: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,net.games.trivia Subject: Re: First Black Baseball Player Message-ID: <534@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 19:24:07 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcb.534 Posted: Wed Nov 6 19:24:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:33:27 EST References: <544@petfe.UUCP> Reply-To: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 26 Xref: linus net.sport.baseball:2005 net.games.trivia:1813 Summary: In article <544@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes: >Who was the first black ballplayer? My history books and my instinct >tells me the obvious answer: Jackie Robinson. > >Why then does Trivial Pursuit say that it was some other guy? Has >everybody else seen that question? The answer is some other guy >whose name escapes me, but whom I had never heard of. Satchell Paige, by chance? > >Is that just one of their blunders, or is there more going on here >than I know about? Yes, there is more going on than you know about. Its called the popularization of history into a media-attractive form. But there ARE wrong answers in T.P. > >--Evan Marcus >-- >{ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan > ...!pedsgd!pedsga!evan > >Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? I DID!! Want to make something of it, pipsqueak (=: