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Author: James A. Riley
Publisher:
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 1000
ISBN-13: 9780780813434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive biographical encyclopedia that includes entries on those involved with the Negro Baseball Leagues, including players, managers, umpires, owners, and other executives, as well as several historical essays related to the sport.
Author: David Pietrusza
Publisher: Total/Sports Illustrated
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781892129345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is the perfect companion to the ultimate classic baseball reference work, Total Baseball. Whereas Total Baseball, now in its sixth edition, lists the statics of every player in major league history, Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia reveals the stories of 2,000 of the national pastime's greatest movers and shakers.
Author: Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-13
Total Pages: 1035
ISBN-13: 1476603057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, "Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have made the major leagues." The Negro Leagues had some of the best talent in baseball but from their earliest days the players were segregated from those leagues that received all the recognition. This history of the Negro Leagues begins with the second half of the 19th century and the early attempts by African American players to be allowed to play with white teammates, and progresses through the "Gentleman's Agreement" in the 1890s which kept baseball segregated. The establishment of the first successful Negro League in 1920 is covered and various aspects of the game for the players discussed (lodgings, travel accommodations, families, difficulties because of race, off-season jobs, play and life in Latin America). In 1960, the Birmingham Black Barons went out of business and took the Negro Leagues with them. There are many stories of individual players, owners, umpires, and others involved with the Negro Leagues in the U.S. and Latin America, along with photos, appendices, notes, bibliography and index.
Author: Wayne Moody
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Published: 2022-03-11
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1638148554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Real Story of the Negro Leagues is an account that has needed to be told since before 1920. With the new revelation of Major League Baseball accepting Negro League statistics, it makes this book even more relevant today. There are a multitude of players who toiled in anonymity simply because of the color of their skin. This book brings to light the people who made the Negro Leagues happen, as well as the players and executives who allowed it to flourish. There are Negro League players who have become household names, while others, who had a major influence in its success, have gotten ignored over time. Most people believe that Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He wasn’t. Jackie actually signaled the end of Negro League baseball. Jackie’s accomplishments were monumental, but there is a rich history that led up to that moment. That rich history is where we will begin. The struggles these great players faced and degradation they had to endure is a testament to the resolve of these individuals. Their love and desire for the great game of baseball made them tackle obstacles others would never attempt. This is a story of triumph over all odds. This is “the real story of the Negro Leagues.”
Author: James A. Riley
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780791025918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a history of the Negro leagues and the role they played in integrating baseball.
Author: Larry Powell
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0786454806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier). The second half is devoted to the Black Barons of subsequent decades, the former Barons invited to tryout camps, others who were signed with minor league clubs, and the fortunate few who got their long-awaited chance in the majors.
Author: Alan J. Pollock
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012-04-03
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 081735722X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Indianapolis Clowns, sometimes referred to as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, they captured the affection of Americans of all ethnicities and classes
Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents brief portraits of twenty legendary African American baseball players who contributed to the integration of Major League baseball.
Author: Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 147666594X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capacities. This ambitious encyclopedia provides information on women players, managers, teams, leagues, and issues since the mid-19th century. Players are listed by maiden name with married name, when known, in parentheses. Information provided includes birth date, death date, team, dates of play, career statistics and brief biographical notes when available. Related entries are noted for easy cross-reference. Appendices include the rosters of the World War II era All American Girls Professional Baseball League teams; the standings and championships from the AAGPBL; and all women's baseball teams and players identified to date.
Author: Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780190619138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Through in-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. Some Jewish owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball's Harlem Globetrotters--indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein was very active in black baseball--that reaped financial benefits for both owners and players but also played upon the worst stereotypes of African Americans and prevented these black "showmen" from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by the traditional Jewish commitment to social justice, helped grow the business of black baseball in the face of the oppressive Jim Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writing for the Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball's segregation."--From publisher description.
