Voices From The Great Black Baseball Leagues
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Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues
Author | : John B. Holway |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-05-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780486136479 |
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The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.
Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues
Author | : John Holway |
Publsiher | : New York : Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : African American baseball players |
ISBN | : 0396085121 |
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Voices from the Negro Leagues
Author | : Brent Kelley |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786422793 |
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Baseball 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.
Fleet Walker s Divided Heart
Author | : David W. Zang |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803299133 |
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Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone. A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along America’s racial fault lines. He died in 1924, thwarted in ambition and talent and frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime.
Great Hitters of the Negro Leagues
Author | : Paul Hoblin |
Publsiher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781614803218 |
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Great Hitters of the Negro Leagues covers the best batters in black baseball. Step up to the plate for vivid accounts of legendary players such as John Henry Lloyd, Dick Lundy, Willie Wells, Oscar Charleston, Oliver Marcelle, James Bell, Martin Dihigo, Ted Radcliffe, Walter Leonard, Norman Stearnes, Buck O'Neil, Josh Gibson, Raleigh Mackey, and Mule Suttles, as well as the great teams they hit for such as the Homestead Grays, Pittsburg Crawfords, and Kansas City Monarchs. Readers will learn about the players' backgrounds, accomplishments, and rise to fame, and the integration of many of these super sluggers into Major League Baseball. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Maybe I ll Pitch Forever
Author | : LeRoy Paige,Satchel Paige |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803287321 |
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Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted everyone by playing professional baseball, in and out of the majors, until 1965. Struggle—against early poverty and racial discrimination—was part of Paige's story. So was fast living and a humorous point of view. His immortal advice was "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
A Calculus of Color
Author | : Robert Kuhn McGregor |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476618685 |
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In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges—population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim Crow era, when northern cities responded to the Great Migration by restricting black access to housing, transportation, accommodations and entertainment, while blacks created their own institutions, including baseball’s Negro Leagues. As the political climate changed and some major league teams realized the necessity of integration, the American League proved painfully reluctant. With the exception of the Cleveland Indians, integration was slow and often ineffective. This book examines the integration of baseball—widely viewed as a triumph—through the experiences of the American League and finds only a limited shift in racial values. The teams accepted few black players and made no effort to alter management structures, and organized baseball remained an institution governed by tradition-bound owners.
The Negro Leagues 1869 1960
Author | : Leslie A. Heaphy |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786413808 |
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Presents 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.