Rick Swaine

The Integration of Major League Baseball

A Team by Team History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and the effect of its integration actions on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780786469352
• ISBN-10: 0786469358
• Artikelnr.: 34445674

Autorenporträt

Society for American Baseball Research member Rick Swaine has been a contributor to The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime. Semi-retired from an accounting career, he coaches youth baseball and plays in an adult league for the Tallahassee Classics. He lives in the Tallahassee, Florida, area.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Integration Timeline     
Introduction: Baseball's Ignoble History of Segregation     
1. The Dawn of Baseball's Integration Era     
2. The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers     
3. The Cleveland Indians     
4. The St. Louis Browns     
5. The Baltimore Orioles     
6. The New York/San Francisco Giants     
7. The Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves     
8. The Chicago White Sox     
9. The Pittsburgh Pirates     
10. The Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics     
11. The Chicago Cubs     
12. The St. Louis Cardinals     
13. The Cincinnati Reds     
14. The Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins     
15. The New York Yankees     
16. The Philadelphia Phillies     
17. The Detroit Tigers     
18. The Boston Red Sox     
19. The 1960s Expansion Teams     
Appendix A: Population of Integration Era Major League Cities     
Appendix B: First Black Award Winners and League Leaders     
Appendix C: First Black Players in Various Minor Leagues     
Appendix D: Roster of Black Players by Team (1947-1959)      
Appendix E: Black Player All-Star Selections Through 1969     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index