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They Played for the Love of the Game : Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota /

"This book recovers the nearly lost history of the segregation-era array of semipro leagues, barnstorming clubs, and loose organizations of all-black teams by sharing stories of African American ballplayers in Minnesota, from the 1870s to the 1960s, through photos, artifacts, and spoken histori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: White, Frank M. (Sports Administrator)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Dave Winfield
  • Minnesota Black baseball in the nineteenth century
  • Black baseball: gophers and keystones
  • Creating their own league
  • Promises, challenges, and the Great Depression
  • The end of the color barrier in organized baseball
  • but barriers still exist
  • The decline of Black baseball and the rise of fast-pitch softball
  • The end of an era
  • Extra innings
  • They passed here along the way: African American and Latino players on Minnesota's minor league clubs.