ABSTRACT
No American institution was too sacred to be rooted out for violations of Communist ideals, not even baseball. By the time that Hitler was rising to power in Germany, the CPUSA found it propitious to champion the cause of ending the segregation of baseball as part of an all-encompassing campaign to end discrimination against African-Americans in all phases of American life. Party members such as the Worker sportswriters saw in the issue of ending discrimination in baseball a way to make a truly revolutionary change in American society. Attacking it with an impassioned and often coarse approach that characterized Communist propaganda, the Communist writers were among the first of the voices that grew louder each passing year to end Jim Crow in baseball.
