The Memphis Red Sox
The Memphis Red Sox

Author: Keith B. Wood

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1476693765

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This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.

The Memphis Red Sox
The Memphis Red Sox

Author: Keith B. Wood

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1476652279

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This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.

Baseball in Memphis
Baseball in Memphis

Author: Clarence Watkins

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738591084

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Auto Zone Park, arguably the best minor-league baseball park built in the past 25 years, is nestled in a corner of downtown Memphis. Located across the street from the historic Peabody Hotel and two blocks from Beale Street, Auto Zone opened in 2000 to rave reviews. It is the phoenix that rose from the ashes of Russwood Park. Baseball enthusiasts remember Russwood and the players who roamed the field, like Dazzy Vance, one-arm Pete Gray, Big Klu, and Moonlight Graham. Images of Baseball: Baseball in Memphis highlights the history of the Chicks and the Redbirds and pays homage to the original amateur Chickasaws, the Red Sox, and the Blues.

Negro League Baseball
Negro League Baseball

Author: Daniel Wolff

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2004-12-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810955851

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This treasure trove of images by Withers, the unofficial team photographer for the Memphis Red Sox, captures the peak of Negro League action through the years of groundbreaking integration, as well as the community in which black baseball was played.

Black Baseball's National Showcase
Black Baseball's National Showcase

Author: Larry Lester

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780803280007

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A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.

"I Will Never Forget"

Author: Brent P. Kelley

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780786414819

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This book continues the riches of two highly praised previous volumes, Voices from the Negro Leagues interesting...solid--MultiCultural Review) and The Negro Leagues Revisited (wonderful--Booklist/RBB; voluminous...top-notch--Public Library Quarterly). The players interviewed in this new book of interviews are Bill Bethea, John Scoop Brown, Paul Casanova, Jim Colzie, Bunny Davis, Ross Davis, Clifford DuBose, Lionel Evelyn, Hubert Glenn, Herald Beebop Gordon, Raymond Haggins, J.C. Hartman, Joe Henry, Carl Holden, Vernell Jackson, Clarence Jenkins, Ernest Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Marvin Jones, Ezell King, Willie Lee, Larry LeGrande, William Little, Nathaniel McClinic, John Mitchell, Grady Montgomery, Bob Motley, Charley Pride, Mack Pride, Bill Sonny Randall, Henry Saverson, Eugene Scruggs, Willie Sheelor, Sam Taylor, Ron Teasley, James Way, Sam Williams, Walter Williams, and Willie Young. Photographs of the players and their teammates and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.

Faithful
Faithful

Author: Stewart O'Nan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-09-06

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0743267532

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Now in paperback, two fiercely avid Red Sox fans document one of the most eagerly anticipated baseball seasons of all time. From devoted fans O'Nan and King comes this unique chronicle of one baseball team's journey from spring training to post-season play.