re: There are two kinds of people in the world

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Unmentioned and unmourned was the late Eddie Klep, who crossed baseball’s color line a year earlier _ in the opposite direction. Klep was the first white man to play Negro League ball.

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What Robinson and Klep shared was the wrath visited on them by some whites, and the challenge each posed to Jim Crow. Both men were often unable to sleep at the same hotel or eat at the same restaurant as their teammates. But Klep was more alone. “He got the same kind of crap Robinson got, but he didn’t have the same backup support group to help him through it,” said his son, Edward Klep Jr., a Northrop Grumman engineer who lives in Shawboro, N.C.

The parallels were sometimes striking. On March 23, 1946, officials in Jacksonville, Fla., canceled a minor league spring training game to keep Robinson from playing there. The very next day, police in Birmingham, Ala., were dispatched to Rickwood Field to pull Klep from the lineup of the visiting Buckeyes, forcing him to change into civilian clothes and sit in the “white” stands away from his team.

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Much more to unpack but thought I would at least get you started down the road to self awareness.

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