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Author: Cheryl Robinson
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781591134664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of a Negro League baseball player, segregation and a missed opportunity to play Major League baseball is combined with Negro League trivia, facts, a list of Negro League teams and surviving players - a wealth of baseball information.
Author: Jeremy Beer
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1496224965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
Author: Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 355
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond. For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten. This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.
Author: Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780786413805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of the Negro Leagues, from their inception to the integration of black players into Major League Baseball to the eventual demise of the league.
Author: Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1429961341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Cuban Star, an interpretive account of Alejandro "Alex" Pompez's life in context, Adrian Burgos, Jr. follows Pompez's--and baseball's--path through the twentieth century's changing social and racial landscape. When the selection committee voted Alex Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball's glory days, Pompez was known as an early and steadfast advocate for Latino players, helping bring baseball into the modern age. So why was his induction so controversial? Like many in the era of segregated baseball, Pompez found that the game alone could never make all ends meet. To finance his beloved team, the New York Cubans, he delved headlong into a sin many baseball fans find unforgivable—gambling. He built one of the most infamous numbers rackets in Harlem, eventually arousing the ire of the famed prosecutor Thomas Dewey. But he also led his Cubans, with their star lineup of Latino players, to a Negro-league World Series championship in 1947. In this effervescent biography, the historian and sportswriter Adrian Burgos, Jr., brings to life the world of professional baseball during a time of enormous change. Following Pompez from his early days to the twilight of his career, Burgos offers a glimpse inside the clubhouse as both owners and players struggled with the new realities of the game. That today's rosters are filled with names like Rodriguez, Pujols, Rivera, and Ortiz is a testament to Pompez and his lasting influence.
Author: John Holway
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780881847642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 60 years professional baseball was a segregated sport. Even today, 44 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, most of the great black players of the Negro Leagues are forgotten or ignored. With this book, Holway sets out to rectify that. Features 25 tales of outstanding players.
Author: Frank Foster
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Published: 2016-04-17
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1621073807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to Post-Integration decline.
Author: Brent Kelley
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005-03-17
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780786422791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaseball lore is replete with the tales of such legendary Negro League stars as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson and a few others. But the stories of the many other African Americans, both stars and journeymen, have largely been forgotten. These were the men who barnstormed the country, playing in loosely organized leagues and eking out a living doing what they did best, playing baseball. In this work, 52 players reminisce about what it was like to play in the Negro Leagues, from the great teams and players to the terrible Jim Crow conditions they faced in the South. Now in their sixties, seventies and eighties, these men reflect on their careers with humor, bluntness, and poignancy, providing a rich record of a part of the game that is quickly being lost to history.
Author: Tony Salin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780809226030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.
Author: Tom Dunkel
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0802121373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
