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Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2012)

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1476621993

BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts. Prior to Volume 9, Black Ball was published as Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal. This is a back issue of that journal.

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1476622000

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Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

Author: Rob Steen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1408181363

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all. Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book offers a thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients that magnetise millions around the globe. It tells the stories that matter: from the gladiators of Rome to the runners of Rift Valley via the innovator-missionaries of Rugby School; from multi-faceted British exports to the Americanisation of professionalism and the Indianisation of cricket. Rob Steen traces the development of these sports which captivate the turnstile millions and the mouse-clicking masses, addressing their key themes and commonalities, from creation myths to match fixing via race, politics, sexuality and internationalism. Insightful and revelatory, this is an entertaining exploration of spectator sports' intrinsic place in culture and how sport imitates life – and life imitates sport.

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 8

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 078647906X

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Black Ball News (Revisited)

Author: Prentice Mills

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781687634580

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Published semi-monthly in magazine format from 1992-1993, Black Ball News was styled as The Journal of Negro Leagues Baseball History. Today, more than a quarter-century since its last issue appeared, original copies of the magazine are rare and highly sought after by researchers and collectors of baseball ephemera. This small volume is a compilation of ten interviews and stories selected from the pages of Black Ball News which capture the distinct character of professional black baseball, particularly as it existed in the South, and present an overview of the game as seen through the eyes of fans and men who wore the uniforms.

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 7

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786495306

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The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues

Author: Todd Peterson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1476636427

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How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Some experts maintain that the quality of play was equal to that of the American and National Leagues. Some believe the Negro Leagues should be part of Major League Baseball's official record and that more Negro League players should be in the Hall of Fame. Skeptics contend that while many players could be rated highly, NL organizations were minor league at best. Drawing on the most comprehensive data available, including stats from more than 2,000 interracial games, this study finds that black baseball was very good indeed. Negro leaguers beat the big leaguers more than half the time in head-to-head contests, demonstrated stronger metrics within their own leagues and excelled when finally allowed into the majors. The authors document the often duplicitous manner in which MLB has dealt with the legacy of the Negro Leagues, and an appendix includes the scores and statistics from every known contest between Negro League and Major League teams.

Black Stats Matter

Author: Philip Lee

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1476647011

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For more than half a century, Black baseball players, barred from the Major Leagues by systemic racism, competed in leagues of their own. This book re-interprets the history of race in baseball from the ground up. It tells the story of how the Major Leagues became the "Caucasian Leagues," and names the person most responsible for their segregation; showing how Major League owners and executives tried to delay and even prevent integration; and proving, using a broad range of methods, that Negro League players were every inch the equals of their Major League counterparts. Cherished records held by white players since the days of segregation are shown to belong rightfully to Negro League superstars. This book takes a fresh look at a subject that's both straight from today's headlines and as old as baseball itself.

The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies

Author: Stephen Ferguson II

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1350368962

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Stephen C. Ferguson II provides a philosophical examination of Black popular culture for the first time. From extensive discussion of the philosophy and political economy of Hip-Hop music through to a developed exploration of the influence of the postmodernism-poststructuralist ideology on African American studies, he argues how postmodernism ideology plays a seminal role in justifying the relationship between corporate capitalism and Black popular culture. Chapters cover topics such as cultural populism, capitalism and Black liberation, the philosophy of Hip-Hop music, and Harold Cruse's influence on the cultural turn in African American studies. Ferguson combines case studies of past and contemporary Black cultural and intellectual productions with a Marxist ideological critique to provide a cutting edge reflection on the economic structure in which Black popular culture emerged. He highlights the contradictions that are central to the juxtaposition of Black cultural artists as political participants in socioeconomic struggle and the political participants who perform the rigorous task of social criticism. Adopting capitalism as an explanatory framework, Ferguson investigates the relationship between postmodernism as social theory, current manifestations of Black popular culture, and the theoretical work of Black thinkers and scholars to demonstrate how African American studies have been shaped.

Bud Fowler

Author: Jeffrey Michael Laing

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1476603774

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This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.