Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Rick Swaine
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780786469352

ISBN 10:   0786469358
Pages:   279
Publication Date:   09 May 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

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     

Reviews

provides a fresh and thorough team view of the integration of Major League Baseball. This book is highly recommended --<i>ARBA</i>; a book baseball fans will want to keep --<i>Tallahassee.com.</i>

Author Information

Society for American Baseball Research member Rick Swaine has five baseball books in publication, two of them on baseball's integration era. He has also been a contributor to The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime. Retired from an accounting career, he lives in the Tallahassee, Florida area.

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