11.   As a result, opposing recruiters have scared off some black athletes.

12.   Baseball has conceded that black athletes have physical talent, but has yet to convince itself that they have intellects too.

13.   Before desegregation, Coach William J. Nicks lured the best black athletes to this brick oasis in the farmlands northwest of Houston.

14.   Black athletes had yet to crack major programs in the South, and in other regions there was what minority players viewed as an unspoken quota system.

15.   Black sold himself as a former college player and coach who knew what black athletes have to go through.

16.   Branch Rickey, the Dodgers president who orchestrated the integration, was concerned that any incident would set back the cause of black athletes for years.

17.   Indeed, before there was Robinson, there were many small victories by black athletes, many of those victories unheralded.

18.   A lot of people who found it easy to believe that a young black athlete was a cocaine user thought this trial was a slam dunk for Mudge.

19.   A vast number, particularly women, give little or no weight to his support among black athletes.

20.   After they made comments regarding anatomical abilities or disabilities of black athletes, they were exiled into a land-based hell, eventually to their graves.