
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to all. Playing in remote minor-league towns, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow.

as James "Mudcat" Grant

as Grover "Deacon" Jones

as Jimmy Wynn

as J.R. Richard

as Tony Pérez

as Orlando Cepeda

as Enos Cabell

as Octavio “Cookie” Rojas

as Orlando Peña

as Bobby Tolan