Robert C. Cottrell

Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe

Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season

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Produktbeschreibung

Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball; Babe Ruth, the great pitcher and slugger who changed the game forever; Buck Weaver, the true lone innocent among the Black Sox players who threw the 1919 World Series; and Rube Foster, the fine pitcher, imaginative manager, and great administrator of blackball who founded the Negro National League. Key events that affected the season and the history of baseball are discussed. Nineteen-twenty was the year that Ruth shattered his own home run record and began a hitting spree that brought in record numbers of fans to the ballparks. It was the year that Rube found a way for large numbers of African-Americans to play the game meaningfully, before loyal crowds, despite Jim Crow laws that kept them out of the majors and minors. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780786411641
• ISBN-10: 0786411643
• Artikelnr.: 21353450

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Cottrell is a professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He lives in Chico.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction     
1. America's Greatest Game     
2. The People's Judge     
3. The Old Roman's Club     
4. The Biggest Man in Baseball     
5. Jim Crow Baseball     
6. Postwar America and the National Pastime     
7. In the Eye of the Storm     
8. The National Commission and Baseball's Achilles' Heel     
9. The Sale of Babe     
10. A Season of Courage: Rube Foster and a League of His Own     
11. A Season of Grace: Babe in Pinstripes     
12. A Season of Fortitude: Tris's and Robbie's Men of Summer     
13. A Season of Infamy: Gambling and the Chicago White Sox     
14. The Scandal Unveiled and One Innocent Amid the Black Sox     
15. Savior of the Game: Baseball's Great Dictator     
15. Savior of the Game: Baseball's Great Dictator     
16. The Season After     
17. Legacies     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index