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The Negro Leagues in New Jersey

Author : Alfred M. Martin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451920
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues in New Jersey written by Alfred M. Martin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the historical significance of the state of New Jersey in the Negro League legacy, especially the black baseball players, teams, owners and managers, and their struggles against not just segregation, and their accomplishments. The book includes photographs, appendices (records of New Jersey Negro League teams, 1923-1948, and a chronology), notes, a bibliography of research sources, an annotated list of suggested further readings, and an index.

Shades of Glory

Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792253068
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Glory written by Lawrence D. Hogan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mamie on the Mound

Author : Leah Henderson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1684467993
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Mamie on the Mound written by Leah Henderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2023 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mamie "Peanut" Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn't welcome in the segregated All-American Girls Pro Baseball League due to the color of her skin. However, a greater opportunity came her way in 1953 when Johnson signed to play ball for the Negro Leagues' Indianapolis Clowns, becoming the first female pitcher to play on a men's professional team. During the three years she pitched for the Clowns, her record was an impressive 33-8. But more importantly, she broke ground for other female athletes and for women everywhere.

Negro League Baseball

Author : Neil Lanctot
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202562
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Negro League Baseball written by Neil Lanctot and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Queen of the Negro Leagues

Author : James Overmyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538139855
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Negro Leagues written by James Overmyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, this bookhonors the life of Effa Manley, the trailblazing female co-owner of baseball’s Newark Eagles. The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominated the ranks of sports executives. That her life story remained unchronicled for so long can only be attributed to one thing: her team, the Newark Eagles, belonged to the Negro Leagues. In Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles, Negro Leagues Centennial Edition, James Overmyer brings to light new details regarding Effa Manley’s fascinating story, including previously-unknown information about her childhood and family. Overmyer wonderfully portrays Effa Manley’s trailblazing life, her championship baseball team, and a thriving black community in Newark that took the Eagles into their hearts. In addition, this book contains updates regarding the Negro Leagues, its talented rank of players, and Manley’s induction into the Hall of Fame. This important work shines the spotlight on a previously unsung segment of baseball history. Drawing extensively from Eagle team records and Manley’s scrapbook, Queen of the Negro Leagues is the definitive biography of a groundbreaking female sports executive.

The Negro Leagues, 1869–1960

Author : Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603057
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues, 1869–1960 written by Leslie A. Heaphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jackie Robinson

Author : Timothy D. Frystak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716618843
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Jackie Robinson written by Timothy D. Frystak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 broke major league baseball's color barrier in partnership with Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Also includes profiles of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, one of the greatest pitchers of his day, who joined the majors in 1948, and of Branch Rickey.

Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars

Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325827
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars written by Richard Bak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stearnes established virtually all of the team's individual and career records during his nine seasons with Detroit.

Comeback Season

Author : Cam Perron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982153601
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Comeback Season written by Cam Perron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues

Author : Bob Kendrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781970159639
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues written by Bob Kendrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936

Author : Sol White
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297838
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 written by Sol White and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

We Are the Ship

Author : Kadir Nelson
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book We Are the Ship written by Kadir Nelson and published by Jump At The Sun. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Only the Ball was White

Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195076370
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Only the Ball was White written by Robert Peterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

The Negro Leagues

Author : James A. Riley
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 : 9780791025918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues written by James A. Riley and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the Negro leagues and the role they played in integrating baseball.

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Author : James E. Brunson III
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616582
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Black Baseball, 1858-1900 written by James E. Brunson III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes. Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.

The Negro Leagues Revisited

Author : Brent Kelley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612366
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues Revisited written by Brent Kelley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s. Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big Train Dudley, Mex Johnson, Buck O’Neil, Herbert Barnhill, Bernard Fernandez, Dick Powell, Jimmy Barnes, Charlie Biot, Monk Favors, Alton King, Buster Haywood, Casey Jones, Hickey Redd, Tommy Sampson, John Gibbons, Schoolboy Gulley, Schoolboy Kimbrough, Briefcase Simpson, Doc Dennis, Ralph Johnson, Lefty LaMarque, Junior Miller, Tex Williams, Baby Face Peatros, Big Jim McCurine, Eddie Williams, Zipper Zapp, Billy Fender, Dave Pope, Bill Powell, Marvin Price, Bob Scott, Dirk Gibbons, Hoss Ritchey, Lefty Bo Maddix, Hank Presswood, Mickey Stubblefield, Josh Gibson, Jr., Bobo Henderson, Fancy Dan Porter, Jumpin Johnny Wilson, Quack Brown, Granny Gladstone, Hoppy Hopkins, Carl Long, Jim Robinson, Juan Armenteros, Peanut Johnson, Eddie Reed, Ricky Maroto, Peachhead Mitchell, Ted Rasberry, Pedro Sierra, Jim Cobbin, Dick Scruggs, Sonny Webb and Tommy Taylor. Rare personal photographs and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.

Invisible Men

Author : Donn Rogosin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259690
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Men written by Donn Rogosin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.