Bob Kendrick tells the story of the memorandum from Yankees Co-Owner Larry MacPhail to New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia advising against the breaking of the color barrier in 1945, and how baseball's segregation would come to end just two years later, with help from special narrator Curtis Granderson.

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