Download or read book The Baltimore Elite Giants and the Decline of Negro Baseball written by Matthew Whitehorn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baltimore Elite Giants written by Bob Luke and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with former players and Baltimore residents, articles from the black press of the time, and archival documents, and illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, The Baltimore Elite Giants recounts a barrier-breaking team’s successes, failures, and eventual demise.
Download or read book Invisible Men written by Donn Rogosin and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Willie Wells before entering the Baseball Hall of Fame. Invisible Men is the story of their lives in baseball. The Negro baseball leagues were among the most important Black institutions in segregated America, and the players were known and revered throughout Black America, both north and south. At a time when baseball was America’s favorite sport, the Negro League players crossed the color barrier to play memorable games with their white Major League counterparts and paved the way for Latin American ballplayers to become part of baseball’s history. The Negro Leaguers helped lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement with their achievements and examples. This remarkable narrative is filled with the memories of many surviving Negro League players. What emerges is a glorious chapter in African American history and an often overlooked aspect of our American past. This edition features a new introduction by the author.
Download or read book The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues written by James A. Riley and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.
Download or read book The Baltimore Elite Giants written by Bob Luke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the Elite Giants of Baltimore baseball team in the Negro League. Highlights pivotal games, players, and league decisions. Also discusses the relationship between the team and major league baseball during integration.
Download or read book AN INSIDE VIEW OF NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL written by Belinda Cole-Schwartz and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a first person look inside 1940’s negro-league baseball, as told through detailed, poignant, and humorous letters and journals of Baltimore Elite Giant pitcher, Donald Troy. Turn back time and step into the first-hand account of Donald Troy, a pitcher for the Baltimore Elite Giants. View this unique time in the 1940’s America, as told through detailed, poignant, and humorous letters and journals of Baltimore Elite Giant pitcher, Donald Troy. A behind the scenes look at how life was for the negro-league players. From bat boy to ballplayer Donald Troy’s experience as a negro-league baseball player is a rare and detailed glimpse into segregated America. A first-hand account from 1940’s America when black professional athletes are pushing to be accepted in the Major league. Read about negro-league Baseball legends such as Roy Campanella, Henry Kimbro, George Scales and many more. Includes photos and official documents including acceptance letters, pay stubs, and player’s contracts. From injuries to locker room antics and everything in-between, grab a hot dog and peanuts and dive into these personal stories. Published by Fulton Books and compiled by Belinda Cole Schwartz this book brings the author’s father’s baseball stories to light, bridging history and humor through personal human connection. The author states "I hope as you read these pages, you discover a greater understanding of baseball and particularly Negro League Baseball as played in the 1940’s. I anticipate you will feel the joy of his friendships and often comical interactions with those involved in the game; as well as a chance to consider the pain and hardships that were inflicted on Blacks in the south during era of Jim Crow."
Download or read book The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants written by Frederick Bush and published by Champions of Black Baseball. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of the Negro Leagues players on the 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants team.
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.
Download or read book Catching Dreams written by Frazier Robinson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the black baseball diamond through a catcher's mask. In 1939, at the age of 29—after playing professional baseball for twelve years—Frazier Robinson caught the legendary Satchel Paige in barnstorming games from New Orleans to Walla Walla. Robinson played several more seasons in the Negro Leagues before finishing his career in Canada. While his career was a solid one, it was less spectacular than that of his friend and Hall-of-Famer, Satchel Paige, and so more typical of the experience of most Negro Leaguers. Richly embroidered with the threads of black society and of life as a black athlete in a racially divided nation, Robinson recounts his long career with the skill and ease of a natural storyteller. He covers, in remarkable detail, the personal perspective of the men, the teams, and the times that shaped this uniquely American subculture. From playing catcher for obscure industrial teams to barnstorming with Satchel Paige, he chronologically traces his nationwide path through the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and early '50s. The Foreword by John "Buck" O'Neil and Introduction by Gerald Early place Robinson squarely in the world of sports, African American culture, and American history.
Download or read book The Negro Leagues Book written by Dick Clark and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the field's most prolific, imaginative, and best-known scholars, this ultimate reference work on the Negro Leagues includes a complete register of all the players--3,400 names, with positions and teams from before the turn of the century into the 1950s--annual rosters, in-depth histories, and more than 75 original photographs.
Download or read book When the Game was Black and White written by Bruce Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Jackie Robinson hit his first crisp line drive into the grass of Ebbets Field, the game of baseball was black and white. But segregation didn't stop black athletes from playing baseball, and playing it with as much dazzle and aplomb as the greatest white stars. Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Judy Johnson, Monte Irvin, and Jackie Robinson--they and other Negro League stars played with a level of skill, verve, and grit that made them heroes among both black and white fans. Featuring an extensive collection of vintage photos, including pictures from Paige's personal scrapbook, this book is the first popular illustrated work on the subject.
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 1035 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.
Download or read book Black Ball A Negro Leagues Journal Vol 7 written by Leslie A. Heaphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts. Prior to Volume 9, Black Ball was published as Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal. This is a back issue of that journal.
Download or read book Black Baseball s National Showcase written by Larry Lester and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Negro Leagues Chronology written by Christopher Hauser and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched and documented, this volume is a comprehensive, year-by-year reference work giving important--yet often obscure--dates in Negro League history. From the Negro Leagues' organized beginning in 1920 through their steep decline immediately after Jackie Robinson's 1947 breaking of the color barrier, entries cover league meetings, noteworthy games, the commentary of columnists, and important events on and off the field. Controversies that defined the experience of black baseball organizers--such as player rights disputes, failure to adhere to league schedules and violations of league rules--are also included here.
Download or read book My Life in the Negro Leagues written by Wilmer Fields and published by Meckler Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures truly deserving of the title, the Black Legends of Baseball.
Download or read book Few and Chosen Negro Leagues written by Monte Irvin and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Irvin, a New York Giants star player who got his start in the Negro Leagues, pays homage to baseball's unsung heroes and long-forgotten stars by selecting the top five players at each position and the top five managers, owners, pioneers, or organizers from the Negro Leagues.
