The enrollment numbers could be for anywhere from 500 to 2,500 students. We’d usually have three teams in the conference at the high end with more in one grade suited than we had for the entire program.

The local leagues reflected this for the most part as well.

Once the base closed a sports complex was made featuring four baseball fields.

Branch Rickey had yet to sign Jackie Robinson, and like the article mentioned – Selma was still thirty years in the future, Little Rock was 1954, twenty years in the future. It was still thirteen or fourteen years before Harry Truman via Eleanor Roosevelt integrated the armed forces.

As a youth I played Little League baseball and we represented Patrick AFB and Cape Canaveral in FL. When we played off base, we were the only integrated Little League team in the state. We gave it a pretty good run before we were stopped – but in 1963, there were no integrated LL teams in the state competing for the championship – other than us.
I believe Mr. Ford provided an eloquent voice to something he believed in.
I always thought GWB making a stand against the U of M was laughable, since he probably would not have been accepted there.
Anyway, that’s my two cents and thank you for your responses.
Kind Regards,
Bobby

Justice O’Connor’s opinions could of course be viewed through the prism of Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Florida election debacle.

It’s hard to see anything else in her body of work apply rigor or consistency for that one reason. An ethical cloud now hangs over the Presidency, that cloud developed from the SCOTUS, one O’Connor took part in.

The New York jets and Oakland Raiders faced each other in Alabama, where Namath played his college football, and the players refused to play at all because the stadium policy was a rule of segregated seating.

Ford fondly remembers an individual withholding his participation at great personal cost to the team.

A great team would have stood with that player.

Guess a move that reinforces segregation, rather than defies it, is part of what makes being a GOPer part of the team, in the cause for civil rights.

This is something to put right alongside his criticism of Bush and Cheney, that he refused to say before an election, when it would have poltiical consequence, and was still alive.