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Out of the shadows : African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson / edited and with an introduction by Bill Kirwin

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Author:
Kirwin, Bill 1937-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 226 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2005
C2005
Contents:
The birth of the Cuban Giants: the origins of black professional baseball / Jerry Malloy -- When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line / Lee Lowenfish -- The year "Cool Papa" Bell lost the batting title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's plea for affirmative action / Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner -- Baseball and community: from Pittsburgh's hill to San Pedro's canefields / Rob Ruck -- The strange career of Sol White, black baseball's first historian / Jerry Malloy -- "Another chink in Jim Crow?" race and baseball on the northern plains, 1900-1935 / Scott Roper -- From Giants to Monarchs: the 1890 season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania / Jerry Jaye Wright -- Racial pioneering on the mound: Don Newcombe's social and psychological ordeal / Guy Waterman -- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson: the last female voice of the Negro Leagues / Jean Hastings Ardell -- Effa Manley, a major force in Negro baseball in the 1930s and 1940s / Gai Ingham Berlage -- Dick Allen, the Phillies, and racism / William C. Kashatus -- Nine principles of successful affirmative action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner
Topic:
African American baseball players--History  Search this
Negro leagues--History  Search this
Discrimination in sports--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_800537