Why did major league baseball owners support segregation by 1890?

The color line in American baseball, until the late 1940s, excluded, with some big exceptions in the 19th century until the line was firmly drawn, players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues. Racialsegregation in professional baseball was sometimes called a ... Major League Baseball's National League, founded in 1876,

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