We have seen a black player integrate the Major Leagues, back when blacks were called Negros, eight years before “Brown vs. Board of Education.”
We have seen basketball go from a peach-basket game in Massachusetts to a passion throughout most of the world.
We have seen a self-coined Cablinasian named Tiger dominate golf and a pair of African-American sisters from Compton dominate tennis — and golf and tennis were thought to be like winter in Buffalo: endlessly white.