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Integrating the Orioles

2016-02-05 Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Integrating the Orioles by : Bob Luke

Download or read book Integrating the Orioles written by Bob Luke. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle to integrate the Baltimore Orioles mirrored the fight for civil rights in Baltimore. The Orioles debuted in 1954, the same year the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation. As Baltimore experienced demonstrations, white flight and a 1968 riot, team integration came slowly. Black players—mostly outfielders—made cameo appearances as black fans stayed away in droves. The breakthrough came in 1966, with the arrival of a more enlightened owner, and African American superstar Frank Robinson. As more black players filled the roster, the Orioles dominated the American League from 1969 through much of the 1970s and into the early 1980s. Attempts to integrate the team’s executive suite were less successful. While black players generally did not participate in civil rights actions, several under Robinson’s leadership pushed for front office jobs for former black players. Drawing on primary sources and interviews with former executives, players and sportswriters, this book tells the story of the integration of the Orioles. The author describes how tensions between community leaders and team officials aborted negotiations to both increase black attendance and put an African American in the club’s executive ranks.

The Integration of Major League Baseball

2009-06-08 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2009-06-08
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Book Synopsis The Integration of Major League Baseball by : Rick Swaine

Download or read book The Integration of Major League Baseball written by Rick Swaine. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and the effect of its integration actions on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.

The Integration of the Pacific Coast League

2018-06 History
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Release : 2018-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Integration of the Pacific Coast League by : Amy Essington

Download or read book The Integration of the Pacific Coast League written by Amy Essington. This book was released on 2018-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Jackie Robinson’s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, the rest of Major League Baseball was slow to integrate while its Minor League affiliates moved faster. The Pacific Coast League (PCL), a Minor League with its own social customs, practices, and racial history, and the only legitimate sports league on the West Coast, became one of the first leagues in any sport to completely desegregate all its teams. Although far from a model of racial equality, the Pacific Coast states created a racial reality that was more diverse and adaptable than in other parts of the country. The Integration of the Pacific Coast League describes the evolution of the PCL beginning with the league’s differing treatment of African Americans and other nonwhite players. Between the 1900s and the 1930s, team owners knowingly signed Hawaiian players, Asian players, and African American players who claimed that they were Native Americans, who were not officially banned. In the post–World War II era, with the pressures and challenges facing desegregation, the league gradually accepted African American players. In the 1940s individual players and the local press challenged the segregation of the league. Because these Minor League teams integrated so much earlier than the Major Leagues or the eastern Minor Leagues, West Coast baseball fans were the first to experience a more diverse baseball game.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015–2016

2017-03-24 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2017-03-24
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Book Synopsis The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015–2016 by : William M. Simons

Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015–2016 written by William M. Simons. This book was released on 2017-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as the preëminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2015 and the 2016 symposia examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark. Presented in six parts, the essays explore Biography: From Mythology to Authenticity, Gender and Generations, Race and Ethnicity on the Base Paths, Ballparks Abandoned and Envisioned, Baseball Cinema, and Business, Law and the Game.

If Baseball Integrated Early

2010-05-08 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2010-05-08
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Book Synopsis If Baseball Integrated Early by : Doug Fowler

Download or read book If Baseball Integrated Early written by Doug Fowler. This book was released on 2010-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes a look at the differences, and some sililarities, in a history of baseball that might have been had the game been integrated from the start."-- page 4.

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