The American Indian Integration of Baseball
Title | The American Indian Integration of Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey P. Powers-Beck |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803237456 |
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 Indians into the game during the previous half-century and the persistent racism directed toward them is not as well known. From the time that Louis Sockalexis stepped onto a Major League Baseball field in 1897, American Indians have had a presence in professional baseball. Unfortunately, it has not always been welcomed or respected, and Native athletes have faced racist stereotypes, foul epithets, and abuse from fans and players throughout their careers. The American Indian Integration of Baseball describes the experiences and contributions of American Indians as they courageously tried to make their place in America?s national game during the first half of the twentieth century. Jeffrey Powers-Beck provides biographical profiles of forgotten Native players such as Elijah Pinnance, George Johnson, Louis Leroy, and Moses Yellow Horse, along with profiles of better-known athletes such as Jim Thorpe, Charles Albert Bender, and John Tortes Meyers. Combining analysis of popular-press accounts with records from boarding schools for Native youth, where baseball was used as a tool of assimilation, Powers-Beck shows how American Indians battled discrimination and racism to integrate American baseball.
The Integration of Major League Baseball
Title | The Integration of Major League Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Swaine |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2009-06-08 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786453346 |
This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and the effect of its integration actions on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.
Baseball's Great Experiment
Title | Baseball's Great Experiment PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Tygiel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780195106206 |
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 Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Integration of Baseball in Philadelphia
Title | The Integration of Baseball in Philadelphia PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Threston |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2003-01-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780786414239 |
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 once again brought attention to the integration of baseball. Integration did not guarantee equality or even begin to solve baseball's race-related struggles. In some instances, integration caused even more problems for the African American players and their white teammates. This was the case in Philadelphia, where, among other discriminatory actions, Phillies manager Ben Chapman instructed his players to verbally abuse Jackie Robinson. This work examines how Philadelphia acquired a reputation as a tough place for African American players. It follows the very slow and difficult progress of integration of the Philadelphia Phillies and Athletics. Attempts to integrate Philadelphia baseball began being made as early as the 1860s, and all of them proved futile until 1953. Those attempts and the reasons that they failed are discussed. The book provides biographical and statistical information on some of the African American players who were confronted with discrimination, and also looks at the white players, managers, coaches, and front office personnel who were having a difficult time accepting African American players on their teams.
The Integration of the Pacific Coast League
Title | The Integration of the Pacific Coast League PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Essington |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2018-06-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803285736 |
"An account of the desegregation of baseball's Pacific Coast League, the first American League of any sport to desegregate all of its teams"--
Brushing Back Jim Crow
Title | Brushing Back Jim Crow PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Adelson |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813918846 |
Adelson interviews dozens of athletes, managers, and sportswriters to chronicle the social plight of the presence of African-American ballplayers in the minor leagues. 20 illustrations.
Raceball
Title | Raceball PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Ruck |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0807048070 |
From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Award-winning historian Rob Ruck not only explains the catalyst for this sea change; he also breaks down the consequences that cut across society. Integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind. By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.