Mitchell is a director of the Boston Red Sox, so it came as no surprise that his report named twice as many Yankees as Red Sox players.

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Clubs such as the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers did not take on their first black players until most other clubs had long utilized black players and clubs like the Dodgers and Giants were well on the way to their long run equilibrium number.

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Some of the more memorable stories came of out of Boston in the mid-1980s, a time when the Red Sox were rearing a number of good young players hitting their arbitration years and when hearings were at their peak in general (35 cases were heard in 1986).

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