dont think the jackie robinson flap has anything to do w racism?

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190. No, they aren't

The leagues themselves draw the boundaries, in cooperation with surrounding leagues. No one outside of these teams & leagues themselves have anything to do with those boundaries.

The leaders at JRW expanded their boundaries into territory belonging to surrounding leagues WITHOUT seeking the necessary permission from those leagues to do so.

They got the district president to sign off on those changes, even though he KNEW that the surrounding leagues had not been consulted and certainly hadn't agreed to the changes. That district president, BTW, had been a long time league official with JRW.

The boundary map was submitted to LL International, without any notification that surrounding leagues had not agreed to the changes, and without the permission of the surrounding leagues.

Once JRW won the national title, they finally went to the surrounding leagues and asked them to agree to the falsified boundaries, which the leagues refused to do.

When the JRW team returned triumphantly to Chicago, it became apparent to other teams that players had been pulled from within THEIR boundaries without THEIR permission. The "welcome home hero" signs in far away suburbs was the dead giveaway.

As your central theme, you claim that this was a result of black kids not wanting to play for white racist coaches. If that's true, then why wouldn't the white racist coaches have simply agreed to the boundary changes? After all, in your narrative, why would a white racist coach want a black kid on his team?