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Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier Women's History Month A poem is a giftIn the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilmans much needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was