Author: William F. McNeil
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600627
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured the country after the regular season ended, or by playing in the organized winter leagues that operated in Florida, California, and several Caribbean and Central and South American countries. This history recounts the experiences of American black ballplayers outside of the Negro Leagues--often in places where a lack of prejudice contrasted sharply with conditions at home. Tracing the development of the game in each location and the unique character of each winter league, it details the contributions of the Negro League players and collects their statistics in each of the winter leagues.
Black Baseball Out of Season
Author: William F. McNeil
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600627
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured the country after the regular season ended, or by playing in the organized winter leagues that operated in Florida, California, and several Caribbean and Central and South American countries. This history recounts the experiences of American black ballplayers outside of the Negro Leagues--often in places where a lack of prejudice contrasted sharply with conditions at home. Tracing the development of the game in each location and the unique character of each winter league, it details the contributions of the Negro League players and collects their statistics in each of the winter leagues.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600627
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured the country after the regular season ended, or by playing in the organized winter leagues that operated in Florida, California, and several Caribbean and Central and South American countries. This history recounts the experiences of American black ballplayers outside of the Negro Leagues--often in places where a lack of prejudice contrasted sharply with conditions at home. Tracing the development of the game in each location and the unique character of each winter league, it details the contributions of the Negro League players and collects their statistics in each of the winter leagues.
Comeback Season
Author: Cam Perron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982153601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 2007, at the age of twelve, Perron bought a set of Topps baseball cards featuring several players from the Negro Leagues. He started writing letters to former Negro League players asking for their autographs and a few words about their careers. The players responded with detailed stories about their glory days on the field, and the racism they faced, including run-ins with the KKK. The letters turned into phone calls, and in these conversations many of the players revealed that they had fallen out of touch with their former teammates. Perron and a small group of fellow researchers organized the first annual Negro League Players Reunion in Birmingham, Alabama in 2010. This is the story of his mission to help many players get pension money that they were owed from Major League Baseball-- and to get a Negro League museum opened in Birmingham, stocked with memorabilia. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982153601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 2007, at the age of twelve, Perron bought a set of Topps baseball cards featuring several players from the Negro Leagues. He started writing letters to former Negro League players asking for their autographs and a few words about their careers. The players responded with detailed stories about their glory days on the field, and the racism they faced, including run-ins with the KKK. The letters turned into phone calls, and in these conversations many of the players revealed that they had fallen out of touch with their former teammates. Perron and a small group of fellow researchers organized the first annual Negro League Players Reunion in Birmingham, Alabama in 2010. This is the story of his mission to help many players get pension money that they were owed from Major League Baseball-- and to get a Negro League museum opened in Birmingham, stocked with memorabilia. -- adapted from jacket
Out of Left Field
Author: Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195399004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories the relationship between Jews and Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs political radicals and a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195399004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories the relationship between Jews and Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs political radicals and a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.
The Best Season - the First Ninety Games
Author: Bob May
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457512211
Category : African American baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457512211
Category : African American baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.
Shades of Glory
Author: Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792253068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792253068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
The Best Season - The Challenging Finish
Author: Bob May
Publisher: Halo Publishing International
ISBN: 9781612449036
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"The Best Season - The Challenging Finish" completes the two book "Best Season Series" of twenty one Negro League Stars (nineteen in National Baseball Hall of Fame) and four free-agent Major League pitchers with stats from their Best Season in Major league Baseball (Don Newcombe, 1956 Dodgers; Luis Tiant, 1968 Indians; J R Richard, 1979 Astros; Donnie Moore, 1985 Angels). 165+ game season against 375 of the greatest Major League players from 1881 through 1987 season. What makes Book Two, The Challenging Finish? Nine Game Series vs. five of the greatest franchises - Athletics, Giants, Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox, fifteen All Star Games with twenty-one man rosters (six pitchers per team), Six Team Playoff Series - Black Ball Stars and the five Major League Teams with the Best Record in the Nine Game Series (vs. the Black Ball Stars) and finally a post season California Winter League - fifteen All Star Games with twenty-five man rosters. The Black Ball Stars are a very talented group of players. This 165+ Game Season makes a great What if scenario of what could have and should have happened if Major League Baseball was not segregated from 1887 to 1947. Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier, plays for the Dodgers in the "Best Season Series".
Publisher: Halo Publishing International
ISBN: 9781612449036
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"The Best Season - The Challenging Finish" completes the two book "Best Season Series" of twenty one Negro League Stars (nineteen in National Baseball Hall of Fame) and four free-agent Major League pitchers with stats from their Best Season in Major league Baseball (Don Newcombe, 1956 Dodgers; Luis Tiant, 1968 Indians; J R Richard, 1979 Astros; Donnie Moore, 1985 Angels). 165+ game season against 375 of the greatest Major League players from 1881 through 1987 season. What makes Book Two, The Challenging Finish? Nine Game Series vs. five of the greatest franchises - Athletics, Giants, Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox, fifteen All Star Games with twenty-one man rosters (six pitchers per team), Six Team Playoff Series - Black Ball Stars and the five Major League Teams with the Best Record in the Nine Game Series (vs. the Black Ball Stars) and finally a post season California Winter League - fifteen All Star Games with twenty-five man rosters. The Black Ball Stars are a very talented group of players. This 165+ Game Season makes a great What if scenario of what could have and should have happened if Major League Baseball was not segregated from 1887 to 1947. Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier, plays for the Dodgers in the "Best Season Series".
The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues
Author: Todd Peterson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476665141
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476665141
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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 Baseball's National Showcase
Author: Larry Lester
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803280007
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803280007
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.
Eight Men Out
Author: Eliot Asinof
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805065374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record . . . A vividly, excitingly written book."--Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805065374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record . . . A vividly, excitingly written book."--Chicago Tribune
What Were the Negro Leagues?
Author: Varian Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524790001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524790001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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.