When the Game Was Black and White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the Game Was Black and White write by Bruce Chadwick. This book was released on 1997-01-01. When the Game Was Black and White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of the Negro baseball leagues, offers profiles of top players and their accomplishments, and shares the memories of players and fans
Black Faces in White Places
Black Faces in White Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Faces in White Places write by Randal Pinkett. This book was released on 2011. Black Faces in White Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book also examines social responsibility, institution building, and longstanding traditions of giving throughout African-American culture and history.
They Played for the Love of the Game
They Played for the Love of the Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Played for the Love of the Game write by Frank M. White. This book was released on 2016-02-01. They Played for the Love of the Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of segregation, black ballplayers in Minnesota were relegated to a haphazard array of semipro leagues, barnstorming clubs, and loose organizations of all-black teams—many of which are lost to history. They Played for the Love of the Game recovers that history by sharing stories of African American ballplayers in Minnesota, from the 1870s to the 1960s, through photos, artifacts, and spoken histories passed through the generations. Author Frank White’s own father was one of the top catchers in the Twin Cities in his day, a fact that White did not learn until late in life. While the stories tell of denial, hardship, and segregation, they are highlighted by athletes who persevered and were united by their love of the sport.
Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936
Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 write by Sol White. This book was released on 1996-08-01. Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Secret Game
The Secret Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret Game write by Scott Ellsworth. This book was released on 2015-03-10. The Secret Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.
