OH+Reflection

**Interview subject** - Bill Topitzes (grandfather)
 * Topic** - Integration of Baseball (1947)

My grandfather has always told me about the integration of baseball and how he really got into the middle of it and got to learn a lot. I never really understood it all until we learned about the Civil Rights movement. Talking to my grandfather was quiet an experiance because, I learned things about the Civil rights movement, my grandfather himself, and the integration of baseball things that I never knew before. He went into detail about his experiences and how the integration of baseball effected him and his life. I thought it was very cool that he personally knew Jackie Robinson and got the oppurtunity to talk to him about baseball and things like that. My grandpa is a very important person in baseball now and back then he really got to know the inside outs of baseball.

The integration of baseball actually helped to integrate America. America's favorite past time is baseball and baseball taking the steps to integrate really opened America's eyes over the time on how they should take the steps to integrate America and to end the Jim Crow laws. I now understand the importance of the integration of baseball and how our country truly needed the integration of baseball at the time that it happened. Things might be different right now if baseball wasn't integrated back when it was.