The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues

Author : Todd Peterson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476665146

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The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues by Todd Peterson Pdf

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.

Author : Bob Kendrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1970159634

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The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues by Bob Kendrick Pdf

SABR and MLB recently concluded that the Negro Leagues were "major leagues." This volume tells how the lost history and statistical record of the Negro Leagues were rebuilt and serves as an introduction to Negro League history as a whole.

Author : Varian Johnson,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524790004

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What Were the Negro Leagues? by Varian Johnson,Who HQ Pdf

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.

Author : Dick Clark,Larry Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0910137609

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The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark,Larry Lester Pdf

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031727996

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A Complete History of the Negro Leagues, 1884 to 1955 by Mark Ribowsky Pdf

For over fifty years - or up until that bright April day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson smashed the major leagues' color barrier - the only ball fields where an African-American could play organized baseball were the tarnished diamonds of the Negro baseball leagues. On these fields, men such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and John Henry Lloyd played for teams such as the Kansas City Monarchs, the Homestead Grays, the Chicago American Giants, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords.

Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018674116

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Shades of Glory by Lawrence D. Hogan Pdf

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.

Author : Cam Perron,Nick Chiles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982153601

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Comeback Season by Cam Perron,Nick Chiles Pdf

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

Author : Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476603056

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The Negro Leagues, 1869–1960 by Leslie A. Heaphy Pdf

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 : Donn Rogosin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803259697

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Invisible Men by Donn Rogosin Pdf

The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Rogosin's narrative pulls the veil off these "invisible men" and gives us a glorious chapter in American history.

Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0195076370

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Only the Ball was White by Robert Peterson Pdf

Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

Author : Neil Lanctot
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780812202564

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Negro League Baseball by Neil Lanctot Pdf

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution presents the extraordinary history of a great African American achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league city. He then conducted interviews with former players and scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need for separate institutions.

Author : Kadir Nelson
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015078797506

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We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson Pdf

“We are the ship; all else the sea.”—Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay to do the one thing they loved more than anything else in the world: play ball. Using an “Everyman” player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. The voice is so authentic, you will feel as if you are sitting on dusty bleachers listening intently to the memories of a man who has known the great ballplayers of that time and shared their experiences. But what makes this book so outstanding are the dozens of full-page and double-page oil paintings—breathtaking in their perspectives, rich in emotion, and created with understanding and affection for these lost heroes of our national game. We Are the Ship is a tour de force for baseball lovers of all ages.

Author : Philip Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476688343

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Black Stats Matter by Philip Lee Pdf

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.

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635928358

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A Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Boston Weatherford Pdf

Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time. Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true. This is what life was like for African American baseball players before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. Meet Josh Gibson, called "the black Babe Ruth," who hit seventy-five home runs in 1931; James "Cool Papa" Bell, the fastest man in baseball; legendary Satchel Paige, who once struck out twenty-four batters in a single game; and, of course, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball, and one of the greatest players of all time. Written by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford with a foreword by Buck O'Neil, a Negro leagues legend whose baseball contributions spanned eight decades, this book is a home run for baseball and history lovers, and makes a great gift for both boys and girls.

Author : Jules Tygiel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195106202

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Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel Pdf

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.