Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line - Couverture rigide

Dunkel, Tom

 
9780802120120: Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
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ISBN 10 : 0802120121 ISBN 13 : 9780802120120
Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Synopsis

A 2013 CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year and a Booklist Top Ten Sports Book of the Year When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere. With civic pride on the line, rivalries were fierce and teams often signed ringers to play alongside the town dentist, insurance salesman, and teen prodigy. In drought-stricken Bismarck, North Dakota during the Great Depression, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was assembled by one of the sport's most unlikely champions. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues, car dealer Neil Churchill signed the best players he could find, regardless of race, and fielded an integrated squad that took on all comers in spectacular fashion. Color Blind immerses the reader in the wild and wonderful world of early independent baseball, with its tough competition and its novelty. Dunkel traces the rise of the Bismarck squad, focusing on the 1935 season and the first National Semipro Tournament. This is an entertaining, must-read for anyone interested in the history of baseball. "A tale as fantastic as it is true." --Boston Globe

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À propos de l?auteur

Tom Dunkel is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than 25 years of experience reporting for major newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in Washington, D.C. This is his first book.

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Éditeur
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802120121
ISBN 13 
9780802120120
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780802121370: Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line

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ISBN 10 :  0802121373 ISBN 13 :  9780802121370
Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly P..., 2014
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