Frank Robinson features in the book “We Would Have Played For Nothing” and which features basevall stars from the ’50s and ’60s such as Whitey Ford, Frank Robinson and Harmon Killebrew.

Frank Robinson tells how he almost became the first black Yankee manager back in 1974, but GM Gabe Paul was afraid to hire him because he had no previous major league managerial experience.

The players interviewed for these books played the game because they loved it, not because they could get rich from it. Every country that has seen major sports go professional can tell the same story - the passion has died along with the growth of media fixers and salaries. Cricket and rugby are the worse for the professional era. Yes it can make a young man (precious few women’s sports pay well enough) right: but is that the right motivation: what about playing for the love of the game rather than the love of money?

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