Out of His League

Jerry Craft, a cracker from West Texas, spent two seasons playing in an all black semi-pro baseball league:
http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/Brice-Cherry-A-white-man-in-a-black-league.html.

I went to school and played sports in what, I guess, was a relatively racially charged time--most of my fellow students and teammates who were black didn't seem to thrilled to be around us white devils. We didn't have anything resembling open warfare; only small time depredations and they were always of the black on white variety and never the other, contrary to what you see in television dramas concocted by people who had no real first hand experience with being working class in the South and on the front lines of the great American racial divide. The big lesson that we learned regarding race was that black people were no worse and no better than anyone else--they were capable of being nice or being jerks. Craft learned that lesson, too. Hollywood and certain political types never have.