Cross-Curricular Connections

“The Shutout” describes the evolution of the rules of baseball, from its early, unorganized days to the present. Some of today’s rules have been in place for a very, very long time. Click on the link below to read the official rulebook of Major League Baseball.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp

As the article describes, African Americans were denied the right to play professional baseball despite new laws that protected their freedom. One of the most important of these laws is the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. The fourteenth amendment guarantees that all people, no matter what their race, are entitled to the protection of the government. Click on the link below to learn more about the fourteenth amendment.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp