Related Books

Baseball's Great Experiment
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Jules Tygiel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Broo
The Integration of the Pacific Coast League
Language: en
Pages: 189
Authors: Amy Essington
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"An account of the desegregation of baseball's Pacific Coast League, the first American League of any sport to desegregate all of its teams"--
The Integration of Baseball in Philadelphia
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Christopher Threston
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-06 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The release of Ken Burns' documentary Baseball in 1994 and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut in the major leagues in 1997 onc
Brushing Back Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Bruce Adelson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Adelson interviews dozens of athletes, managers, and sportswriters to chronicle the social plight of the presence of African-American ballplayers in the minor l
The American Indian Integration of Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeffrey P. Powers-Beck
Categories: Baseball
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For many the entry of Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball in 1947 marked the beginning of integration in professional baseball, but the entry of American