Out of the shadows : African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson /

For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's national pastime, NINE has explored baseball from the earliest matches and little-known players of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kirwin, Bill, 1937- (Editor, author of introduction.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]
Subjects:
African American baseball players > History.
Negro leagues > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States > History.
Joueurs de base-ball noirs américains > Histoire.
Ligues des Noirs (Base-ball) > Histoire.
Discrimination dans les sports > États-Unis > Histoire.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Essays & Writings.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
African American baseball players
Discrimination in sports
Negro leagues
Recreation & Sports.
Social Sciences.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the Cuban Giants: the origins of black professional baseball / by Jerry Malloy
  • When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line / by Lee Lowenfish
  • The year "Cool Papa" Bell lost the batting title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's plea for affirmative action / by Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner
  • Baseball and community: from Pittsburgh's hill to San Pedro's canefields / by Rob Ruck
  • The strange career of Sol White, black baseball's first historian / by Jerry Malloy
  • "Another chink in Jim Crow?" race and baseball on the northern plains, 1900-1935 / by Scott Roper
  • From Giants to Monarchs: the 1890 season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania / by Jerry Jaye Wright
  • Racial pioneering on the mound: Don Newcombe's social and psychological ordeal / by Guy Waterman
  • Mamie "Peanut" Johnson: the last female voice of the Negro Leagues / by Jean Hastings Ardell
  • Effa Manley, a major force in Negro baseball in the 1930s and 1940s / by Gai Ingham Berlage
  • Dick Allen, the Phillies, and racism / by William C. Kashatus
  • Nine principles of successful affirmative action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / by Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner.

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