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Ralph Wimbish helped force hotel owners and MLB league officials to integrate its player housing allowing all players to live under one roof on road trips in 1961

Ralph Wimbish helped force hotel owners and MLB league officials to integrate its player housing allowing all players to live under one roof on road trips in 1961

In 1961 during Major League Baseball spring training season, Ralph M. Wimbish, a St. Petersburg, Florida Black American doctor, helped forced city leaders, hotel owners, and league officials to integrate its player housing. This would allow the entire team to live under one roof. Wimbish was born on July 24, 1922, in Cordele, Georgia. Looking for more […]