The Black press and Black baseball, 1915-1955 : a devil's bargain / Brian Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Brian, 1965- author.

Series:

Routledge research in sports history ; 8.

Routledge research in sports history ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Mass media and sports.

African Americans in mass media.

History.

African American newspapers.

African American press.

African American baseball players.

United States.

Negro leagues--History.

Negro leagues.

African American baseball players--History.

African American press--History--20th century.

African American newspapers--History--20th century.

African Americans in mass media--History--20th century.

Mass media and sports--United States.

Discrimination in sports--United States.

Discrimination in sports.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 160 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same black leagues. Taking a thematic approach, this book focuses each of its chapters on a singular event or phenomenon from and for each decade of the period covered, a period that spans the roughly four decades of the black leagues' existence. Thus, the book drills down on a handful of representative events and phenomena to present a history of the black press and black baseball. Themes include the many ways team owners and the weekly newspapers' editors and writers worked in concert to build up the leagues, the paired fortunes of black players and black writers, the desperation to save the Negro leagues when it became clear integration threatened their survival, and finally the black press's response to the residues of baseball's decades of segregation"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138887855

1138887854

OCLC:

893895790