"On opening night in Little Rock, Governor Faubus, the noted opponent of integration, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. A crowd of 7,000 fans, mostly white, packed the ballpark. Some of the fans waved large placards that said, “Let’s not NEGRO-ize our baseball.” After that first game, Dick Allen returned to his car in the parking lot. There he found the opposite of solace: a note on the windshield with a scribbled message, “Don’t come back again, n-----.” Dick Allen was the first Black player in Arkansas Travelers` history.