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Article: Discrimination, S.F. style, hit Mays
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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ANNIVERSARIES are not always pleasant. Fifty years ago Wednesday,
the San Francisco Chronicle ran this headline: "Willie Mays is
refused S.F. House -- Negro."
The racial term is now unacceptable. Half a century ago, in a
city called one of the most liberal, diverse and open-minded in
America, a great baseball player found himself unacceptable.
"It was a very conservative place in those days," Gary Shemano
said of his hometown.
Shemano is 62, an investment executive, a golf champion. His late
father, Jake, a banker, became in Mays' words "the best friend I
have in the world."
Throughout the summer of 1957, the move of the New York Giants to
San Francisco and the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los ...
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