Summary
At first, Edwin Watley didn't know what to think when his daughter Natasha came home from school and asked him to play catch.
"Softball?" he thought. "As an adult, my first inclination was, Why do you want to play softball? There are no black softball players. ... When Natasha was growing up, I thought she might have been a track and field athlete or a basketball player because those were the two sports I loved.See the full content of this document
Extract
Softball Knows No Boundaries for Watley
"But as a parent, you support whatever your child wants to do. I was just glad she was active in something and having fun."
Still, he worried whether his daughter would encounter racism in a sport dominated by whites. He wanted to protect her, as all parents do, from the kind of ugliness he had seen attending segregated schools in northern Louisiana in the late 1960s. Edwin Watley had gone to Southern University, a hist...See the full content of this document
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