they were unable to find the money for the luxury of a washingmachine, and having a dirty complexion, with cuts on her feet from walking so much withoutshoes. If this does not affect you, then you simply do not have a soul. This girl should have beenwell off, just like all the other baseball stars, but she wasn't because her father played in theColored League. In addition, the statements that were offered by Wilson's main character Troy,foretold the true struggle in which they experienced. For example, when he first found out thathis son wanted to get recruited to go play football, Troy told his son that "The colored got tobe twice as good before he get on the team. That's why I don't want you to get all tied up in themsportsAll them teams the same." (Wilson, pg. 34) This was the truth; colored players eventhough sometimes better than the whites were denied the right to play simply because of theircolor. Troy didn't want his son to go through what he had - the heartbreak, and depression -because he got recruited, but never played; something Troy knew would happen. On the otherhand, at this point, times were said to be changing, but Troy denied his son the right to playbecause of what they had done to him in sports - his mind was poisoned by the fact that the whitemen were out to eliminate any chance an African American had to play ball (the past). To provethis, take into notice the way Troy spoke when conversating with his wife about his son Troyreplied, "I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away form my life as he cangetdecided 17 years ago that boy wasn't getting involve in no sports. Not after what they didto me in the sports." (Wilson, pg. 39) It was said that only "but two men ever played baseball asgood as [Troy]. That's Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson," but he was never given the opportunity toexcel or to make any money doing so, thus, I can understand his bitter resentment towards thecombination of s...
