Brian Carroll

The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955 (eBook, ePUB)

A Devil's Bargain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book drills down on a handful of representative events and phenomena to present a history of the black press and black baseball from the origins of the Negro leagues in 1915 to their fading away in the mid-1950s. Each chapter focuses on a singular event or phenomenon from and for each decade of the period covered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317499305
• Artikelnr.: 43418333

Autorenporträt

Brian Carroll is a professor of communication and director of the Honors Program at Berry College in Mount Berry, Ga. He is also author of When to Stop Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball (Routledge, 2007) and Writing & Editing for Digital Media (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Great Newspaper War of 1915 2. The Jazz Age: The Black
Press, Sports and Poetry 3. "A Perfect Baseball Day": The East-West Classic
4. 'This is IT!': Jackie Robinson and Wendell Smith in Brooklyn, 1947 5.
Sacrificing the 'Golden Goose' on the Altar of Integration 6. Desperate
Measures: The Scouting Campaigns and Baseball Academies of the 1950s 7. The
Stubborn South: The Desegregation of Spring Training in the Early 1960s