Histeam has a much lowerbudgetthan big city teamslike the New YorkYankeesandthe BostonRedSox, which are able topay huge sums to getthe bestplayers in the world.
Clubs such as the BostonRedSox 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.
Some of the more memorable stories came of out of Boston in the mid-1980s, a time when the RedSox 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).