The African American Baseball Experience In Nebraska

Author : Angelo J. Louisa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641560
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African American Baseball Experience in Nebraska written by Angelo J. Louisa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebraska is not usually thought of as a focal point in the history of black baseball, yet the state has seen its share of contributions to the African American baseball experience. This book examines nine of the most significant, including the rise and fall of the Lincoln Giants, Satchel Paige's adventures in the Cornhusker State, a visit from Jackie Robinson, and the maturation of Bob Gibson both on and off the field. Also, recollections are featured from individuals who participated in or witnessed the African American baseball experience in the Omaha area.

Author : Angelo J. Louisa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479760
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African American Baseball Experience in Nebraska written by Angelo J. Louisa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebraska is not usually thought of as a focal point in the history of black baseball, yet the state has seen its share of contributions to the African American baseball experience. This book examines nine of the most significant, including the rise and fall of the Lincoln Giants, Satchel Paige's adventures in the Cornhusker State, a visit from Jackie Robinson, and the maturation of Bob Gibson both on and off the field. Also, recollections are featured from individuals who participated in or witnessed the African American baseball experience in the Omaha area.

Author : Bill Kirwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080325153X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by Bill Kirwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's national pastime, NINE has explored baseball from the earliest matches and little-known players of the 1800s to the modern billion-dollar industry and its superstars of today. Here, gathered for the first time, are the best essays from NINE that center on the complex and multifaceted topic of African Americans in baseball.

Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200335
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( 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 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum with funding from Major League Baseball, this work chronicles the Negro Leagues era, combining on-field reportage with historical context.

Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten History of African American Baseball written by Lawrence D. Hogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond. For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten. This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

Author : Gregory N. Peters
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1476580154
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Leagues written by Gregory N. Peters and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the history of the Negro Leagues, the only option for African-American baseball players until the color barrier was broken in the late 1940s"--

Author : Donn Rogosin
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622339X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Kevin Warneke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638144
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rosenblatt Stadium written by Kevin Warneke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium was home to baseball's College World Series from 1950 until 2010. Future Major League stars played pro ball there in all but seven seasons during the same period. The venue also hosted barnstorming games, football games, concerts and a variety of novelty events in its lifetime. The history of the stadium is told by people who lived it. Essays and recollections by players and coaches who competed there, organizers of the Series and other events, and fans who enjoyed more than six decades of entertainment establish Rosenblatt's place in the American cultural landscape.

Author : Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662335X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Ball 10 written by Leslie A. Heaphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sol White
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297838
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( 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.