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The American Indian integration of baseball Jeffrey Powers-Beck ; with a foreword by Joseph B. Oxendine
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV867.3 .P888 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers-Beck, Jeffrey P., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- Indian baseball players--United States--History.
- Indian baseball players.
- Discrimination in sports--United States.
- Discrimination in sports.
- Indians of North America--Social conditions.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
- Contents:
- "Chief"
- the American Indian integration of baseball
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School baseball
- The Nebraska Indians baseball team
- Bender, Meyers, and Thorpe in the big leagues
- The many trails of Louis Leroy
- George Howard Johnson's career in professional baseball
- The baseball legend of Moses Yellow Horse
- Epilogue: anti-Indian caricature in major league baseball.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803237456 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 54852900
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