Out of the shadows : African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson /

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Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005] ©2005
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	African American baseball players -- History. Negro leagues -- History. Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History. African American baseball players. Discrimination in sports. Negro leagues. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138151

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Other authors / contributors:	Kirwin, Bill, 1937- editor, author of introduction.
ISBN:	9780803251533 080325153X 9781280423895 1280423897 9780803278257 080327825X 9786610423897 661042389X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Out of the shadows. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005 080327825X

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. "The Birth of the Cuban Giants: The Origins of Black Professional Baseball
2. "When All Heavens Rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the Origins of the Breaking of the Color Line
3. "The Year Cool Papa Bell Lost the Batting Title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's Plea for Affirmative Action
4. "Baseball and Community: From Pittsburgh Hill to San Pedro's Canefields
5. "The Strange Career of Sol White, Black Baseball's First Historian
6. "Another Chink in Jim Crow? Race and Baseball on the Northern Plains, 1900-1935
7. "From Giants to Monarchs: The 1890 Season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania
8. "Racial Pioneering on the Mound: Newcombe's Social and Psychological Ordeal
9. "Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson: The Last Female Voice of the Negro Leagues
10. "Effa Manley, A Major Force in Negro Baseball in the 1930's and 1940's
11. "Dick Allen, the Phillies and Racism
12. "Nine Principles of Successful Affirmative Action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the Integration of Baseball

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