Cracks in the outfield wall : the history of baseball integration in the Carolinas /

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Author / Creator:Holaday, J. Chris, 1966- author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Description:x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13474953
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Varying Form of Title:History of baseball integration in the Carolinas
ISBN:9781469678849
1469678845
9781469678856
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9781469678870
9798890887252
9781469678863
9798890887245
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Holaday illuminates many smaller stories along the way, including desegregation in Little League and American Legion baseball, the first Black players to play in the tiny foothills town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and the pipeline of Afro-Cuban players from Havana to the Carolina leagues. By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game"--

MARC

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