Yes he was racially abused at times. It’s been lost to history. So much media didn’t make it to the internet, old books that had limited runs were lost, and the same for so many newspaper articles.
He was called Hard N lips growing up. He was born 30 years after Because he was so much darker than the other boys and his other features. The Red Sox fans called him the big baboon. He was a pitcher at first before he became the hit king.
Similar to Jordan’s love of the game clause Babe Ruth would often go out of his way to play games with Black men who were banned from Major leagues. Babe would be up in Harlem at the AME Churches. One of his best friends was the owner of the Black Yankees of the Negro Leagues. He brought the first black man into the Yankee Clubhouse. After he retired he played for free in front of 8,000 people in Dyckman against the New York Cubans.
He’s on record calling Italians Wops and Irish people Micks. But never the N word.
His was blocked from being a manager because it was feared he would add black players. He’s the only great of his era with so many games known of against in their prime Negro League legends. He retired in 1935 twelve years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
Why would a white man give and receive so much love from black people in that era ?
He’s darker than Adam Clayton Powell Jr