Yankee outfielder Jake Powell is suspened for racial comments

On July 29, 1938 — On the WGN’s White Sox pregame radio show, Yankee outfielder Jake Powell, in response to a Bob Elson question concerning his offseason employment as a Dayton, Ohio policeman, quips “beating up niggers and then throwing them in jail”. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis downplays the incident, describing the ballplayer’s comments as acting not “intentionally, but carelessly,” and will suspend the reserve fly chaser for ten days.

 
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