Museum Honors Native Americans in Baseball

A half century before Jackie Robinson officially integrated Major League baseball in 1947, Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot Nation quietly slipped onto the roster of the Cleveland Spiders. Though his presence in the major leagues did not receive the same attention as that of Robinson’s celebrated stint with the Brooklyn Dodgers, it may be said that Sockalexis and many other Native Americans who have played in the major leagues since the turn of the 20th Century, were trailblazers for Robinson and other African-Americans to break through later on. Their story is the centerpiece of an exhibit at the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, N.Y. Read more about it here.