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Out of left field : Jews and Black baseball
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alpert, Rebecca T, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--History--Social aspects--20th century--United States.
- Baseball.
- Racism in sports--History--20 century.
- Racism in sports.
- African Americans--History--Relations with Jews--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 236 p.) : ill., ports.
- Other Title:
- Out of left field
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories the relationship between Jews & Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs political radicals & a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.
- Contents:
- Baseball was America
- The business of Black baseball before World War II
- World War II and the advancement of Black baseball
- The conflict over comedy baseball
- The Jewish contribution to ending Jim Crow baseball
- Enter Jackie Robinson.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199897360 (ebook) :
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