Cracks in the outfield wall : the history of baseball integration in the Carolinas / Chris Holaday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holaday, J. Chris, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carolina League (Baseball league)--History.

Carolina League (Baseball league).

Discrimination in sports--United States--History--20th century.

Discrimination in sports.

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

Baseball.

African American baseball players--North Carolina--History.

African American baseball players.

African American baseball players--South Carolina--History.

North Carolina.

South Carolina.

United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

History of baseball integration in the Carolinas

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Holaday illuminates many smaller stories along the way, including desegregation in Little League and American Legion baseball, the first Black players to play in the tiny foothills town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and the pipeline of Afro-Cuban players from Havana to the Carolina leagues. By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781469678849

1469678845

9781469678856

1469678853

OCLC:

1402022076