Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball

(Part of the Sport in the American West Series)

by Rob Fink

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While baseball may have long been considered an all-American sport in which a melting pot could celebrate ethnic heroes like Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Connie Mack, and Stan Musial, racial segregation excluded blacks from an otherwise democratic picture. Such was certainly the case in Texas, where, in the state's first professional matchup soon after the Civil War, the R. E. Lees faced the Stonewalls--and African Americans, not surprisingly,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0896727017

ISBN13:9780896727014

Release Date:February 2010

Publisher:Texas Tech University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Baseball History of Sports Miscellaneous Specific Demographics Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation State & Local

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