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Baseball's Other All-Stars

2000-03-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2000-03-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Baseball's Other All-Stars by : William F. McNeil

Download or read book Baseball's Other All-Stars written by William F. McNeil. This book was released on 2000-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is played in all corners of the world, so it is no surprise to learn that some of the greatest hardballers of all time never played on a U.S. major league diamond. Who knows what major league records would have been shattered had Sadaharu Oh of Japan, Josh Gibson of the Negro Leagues, Martin Dihigo of Cuba, Francisco Coimbre of Puerto Rico and Hector Espino of Mexico played in the United States. This work is a survey of the greatest baseball players who never played in the U.S. major leagues. The greatest players from the various professional leagues outside organized baseball in the United States are reviewed, and all-star teams are selected for each league. Finally, the author selects an "all-world all-star team" from the individual all-star teams from Japan, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Negro Leagues.

The Midsummer Classic

2001-01-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 734/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Midsummer Classic by : David Vincent

Download or read book The Midsummer Classic written by David Vincent. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter.

A Team for the Ages

2004 Baseball players
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Release : 2004
Genre : Baseball players
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Book Rating : 023/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Team for the Ages by : Robert W. Cohen

Download or read book A Team for the Ages written by Robert W. Cohen. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain to create new controversies, and stir up some old ones, here is a fascinating historical and comparative look at the national pastime and its greatest players over the past one hundred years.

Stolen Dreams

2022-04 Social Science
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Release : 2022-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Stolen Dreams by : Chris Lamb

Download or read book Stolen Dreams written by Chris Lamb. This book was released on 2022-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization's guests at the World Series, where they heard spectators yell, "Let them play! Let them play!" when the ballplayers were introduced. This became a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared as Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the torture and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. Stolen Dreams is the story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil rights movement. It's also the story of centuries of bigotry in Charleston, South Carolina--where millions of enslaved people were brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone who challenged it did so at their own risk.

Black Baseball's National Showcase

2001-01-01 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Black Baseball's National Showcase by : Larry Lester

Download or read book Black Baseball's National Showcase written by Larry Lester. This book was released on 2001-01-01. 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.

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