Black History: Who Desegregated Major League Baseball: Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson?

Teachers will be able to:

• Demonstrate how profits and markets motivated people to move toward no discrimination in baseball.
• Show how markets encourage buyers and sellers to interact harmoniously and cooperatively.
• Explain how entrepreneurs take on the calculated risk of starting new businesses, either by embarking on new ventures similar to existing ones or by introducing new innovations.
• Learn strategies on entrepreneurial innovation is an important source of economic growth, especially in those markets once closed by discrimination.