What Were The Negro Leagues
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Author | : Varian Johnson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2019-12-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1524790001 |
This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball. In America during the early twentieth century, no part was safe from segregation, not even the country's national pastime, baseball. Despite their exodus from the Major Leagues because of the color of their skin, African American men still found a way to participate in the sport they loved. Author Varian Johnson shines a spotlight on the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 40s. Readers will learn about how phenomenal players like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and of course, Jackie Robinson greatly changed the sport of baseball.
Author | : Mark Ribowsky |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806518688 |
For over 50 years or until 1947 when Jackie Robinson smashed the major leagues' color barrier the only ball fields where an African American could play organized baseball were the tarnished diamonds of the Negro leagues. In the first exhaustive history of the Negro leagues, readers learn why much of black culture once centered on "blackball". of photos.
Author | : Neil Lanctot |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0812202562 |
The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution presents the extraordinary history of a great African American achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league city. He then conducted interviews with former players and scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need for separate institutions.
Author | : Lawrence D. Hogan |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780792253068 |
The result of a study commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and funded by a grant from Major League Baseball(, this richly illustrated, comprehensive history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component to re-create the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. 75 photos.
Author | : Bob Kendrick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781970159639 |
SABR and MLB recently concluded that the Negro Leagues were "major leagues." This volume tells how the lost history and statistical record of the Negro Leagues were rebuilt and serves as an introduction to Negro League history as a whole.
Author | : Donn Rogosin |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780803259690 |
The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Rogosin's narrative pulls the veil off these "invisible men" and gives us a glorious chapter in American history.
Author | : Leslie A. Heaphy |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780786413805 |
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.
Author | : Matt Doeden |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press (Tm) |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1512427535 |
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Author | : Daniel Wolff |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-12-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780810955851 |
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.
Author | : Ted Reinstein |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1493051229 |
In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947. This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.