I’m a history buff, not just baseball history, but all history. Thus when I saw this Washington Post article a few weeks ago, headlined “Eight black transit workers got promoted. Thousands of white workers walked off the job.”, it piqued my interest.
So let’s take a brief break from thinking about whether baseball will shut down or not, and dive into a bit of baseball history.
The transit strike happened in the summer of 1944 in Philadelphia. For the purposes of this article, the WaPo headline tells the key parts of the story, you can click and read the rest of the article if you like.