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In 1952, the following sidebar appeared in the Sporting News.
The Georgia Peach Bats for Negroes
--Tells How Colored Fans Can Help --
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San Francisco, Calif.---Ty Cobb, a native of Georgia said last week he held no prejudice whatever to the of in any sport, professional or amateur. "Anyone who qualifies as a gentleman is qualified anywhere said Cobb, "regardless of his color, and the Negro should be accepted and not grudgingly but wholeheartedly. "The Negro has a right to compete in sports and who is to say they have not? They have been competing notably in football, track, and baseball and I think they are to be complimented for their gentle conduct both on the field, and, as far as I know, off the field. "I think the Negro has the right to compete in sports in every section of the country as long as his deportment is genteel and unchallengeable. "All Negroes in baseball, which is of course the game I notice the most have up to date qualified not only as to their deportment but their ability. No trouble has been encountered. "I think it is also an obligation Negro fans in the stands to conduct themselves in such a manner as not to place the participation of colored athletes in a controversial position. They can help considerably to the process of absorbing Negro athletes in sports." Jack McDonald
(Sporting News, Wednesday, February 6, 1952, pp. 4, column 4.)

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-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy