Dirt and the Skirt

ID: 2781 ~ Source: Heaphy, Leslie. Interviewed by Regina Wenger, October 5, 2020, by phone in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX.
This file appears in: Black Baseball in Waco

While no record exists of black women playing baseball in Waco, Dr. Heaphy discusses the role they played nationally in the sport.

This file appears in: Black Baseball in Waco

By Regina Wenger
As “America’s pastime,” baseball also imbibed the country’s original sin: racism. This scourge haunted the game from its earliest days, but by the start of the twentieth century the formal segregation of baseball was complete and remained so until…