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Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814325827
Stearnes established virtually all of the team's individual and career records during his nine seasons with Detroit.
Author : Larry Lester
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780738507040
When the Negro National League was formed in Kansas City in 1920, a new chapter in sports history began. The city of Chicago played no small part in the creation and content of this historic chapter. Black Baseball in Chicago chronicles the history of the teams and players that spent time in the "Windy City." In 1911, the Chicago American Giants were born. This team drew some of the best players from the league, including such legendary stars as Bruce Petway, Pete Hill, Grant "Home Run" Johnson, and future hall-of-famer John Henry "Pop" Lloyd. On any given Sunday afternoon, the Chicago American Giants games often outdrew those of the cross-town rivals, the White Sox and the Cubs.
Author : LeRoy Paige
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803287327
Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted everyone by playing professional baseball, in and out of the majors, until 1965. Struggle—against early poverty and racial discrimination—was part of Paige's story. So was fast living and a humorous point of view. His immortal advice was "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Author : Rosilyn Stearnes-Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 147664697X
Baseball Hall of Famer Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (1901-1979) batted more than .400 three times, led the Negro Leagues in home runs seven times and holds the all-time Negro Leagues record for career home runs. Despite his legendary achievements on the field, Stearnes worked off-seasons in Detroit's auto plants, including one owned by Walter Briggs, who also owned the Detroit Tigers--a team Stearnes couldn't play for because he was black. Written by his eldest daughter, this first biography of "Turkey" Stearnes intimately recounts his life and career and gives overdue recognition to one of the greatest all-around players in the history of baseball.
Author : Mitch Lutzke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476671656
The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 1890s. Formed through a partnership between black and white boosters, the team's respectable four-year run was an early integration success--before integration was phased out decades ahead of Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut, and the growing Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Page Fence Giant's best talent from the major leagues. This book tells the the story of a long-ignored team at the close of the 19th century, whose Hall of Famer second baseman Sol White was but one of their best players.
Author : Kyle P. McNary
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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Author : Sol White
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803297838
America and baseball are rediscovering the game played by African Americans before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. We now know a great deal about the Negro Leagues of 1920 on, and their great stars-Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and their contemporaries. But what of the pre-1920 black game? From the onset in the 1880s of the "gentleman's agreement" that barred blacks from playing in white leagues, that game is nearly invisible. Financially shaky, with sporadic media coverage even in black newspapers and completely overlooked by the mainstream, Negro teams of this era played on for love of the game and in hopes that their skills would receive their due. In 1907, Sol White, a remarkable African-American ballplayer, successful manager, and baseball loyalist, wrote a small volume on the history of the black game. Part fund-raising effort, advertising brochure, team hype, celebration of black baseball, and throughout an implicit and explicit challenge to racism, Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball is the source of much of what we know of the events in the organized black game of that time. The original was poorly printed, and copies are exceedingly rare (known and rumored copies number only four). This edition republishes the full 1907 edition (with the even rarer supplement), completely reset for legibility, and reproduces all the original's illustrations, including the advertisements that speak volumes on the social world of the day. Fifteen additional documents from 1886 to 1936 augment the picture of the black game and our record of Sol White himself. The work is introduced by Jerry Malloy, a recognized expert on the history of Negro leagues who has spent years inpainstaking research into this vanished world.
Author : William McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786413010
"This first complete history provides an overview of the league's early years, detailed summaries for the official seasons of 1920 through 1947 and accounts of the exciting pennant races between the Negro league teams and the white professional teams. Appendices provide extensive statistical information."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Larry Lester
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803280007
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.