i talk in the book about the dave robinson came up and how my father who had no interest in baseball whatsoever. i was simply a guy who offer my own with my group played the game every day. but of course we have a black family in new jersey had a great interest in the breaking the code are baseball in my father said to me as i describe in the book, the dave robinson came up to the dinner table, robinson knocked one in today. you know robinson got an rbi here against the yankees? he knew all of that as well. we were very excited about jackie robinson's pioneering in 1947 people at dan bank and larry david and mike campanella who followed them. so i read about them. what has happened is they, that we've made great advances in integrating the game. but those advances have stopped. they then stop a fight corporative reasons, which i talk about in the book. to the extent the number of black players in the game today has diminished appreciably from the 1970s, from the 40s to the seven days, he kind of quota system is in effect in which only the black superstars were able to get in the game

only big difference i think is that jackie robinson wasn't pretending to be white as this young man certainly has. as you know, dave not all of the reaction has been positive. most notably espn's chris broussard. here's what he said yesterday when asked if collins can consider himself a christian. >> personally, i don't believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly premarital sex between metrosexuals, if you're openly living that type of lifestyle, the bible says you know them by their fruits. it says that that's a sin. if you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality adultery fornication premarital sex between heterosexuals, i believe that's walking in open rebellion to god and jesus christ so i would not characterize that person as a christian because i don't think the bible would characterize him as a christian. >> john: dave, coming up shortly in the show, we'll have an epic commentary about how broussard doesn't know the bible all that well but he's a great guy. everyone likes him. he supports collins' coming out. should broussard be fired or sancti

jackie robinson broke the coloured barrier in business ball black people didn't just get one at-bat and we're done. jackie paved the way for billie-- willie and hank and skinny, jelly roll, gentleman dave, plunk, chino. >> jon: really, plunk. >> actual player, look him up, blackipedia. >> jon: blackipedia? is there a blackipedia? >> there is. >> jon: or there will be now. so wait, so you're say nothing latino president or a woman president. >> no, no. a black latino would be fine. >> jon: i imagine also a black woman. >> yeah but a strong black woman with a strong black woman name, you know, like kochbd leeza on quvenzhane, something that says yeah i'm the president but i could also be a perfume. (laughter) >> jon: so any ethnicity. >> as long as they're black. >> jon: for how long? larry, how long does the run of black presidents have to go? i mean do you think a democracy can survive with the same race dominating the white house for years on end over and over again? i mean is that-- the-- now that i hear that outloud i realize -- >> that's right. >> jon: i suppose white guys did have a pretty good run. >> good run? jon, you had 43 out of 44. >> jon: well, 43 and a half, really, i mea