A Calculus of Color: The Integration of Baseball's American League - Softcover

McGregor, Robert Kuhn

 
9780786494408: A Calculus of Color: The Integration of Baseball's American League
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786494409 ISBN 13: 9780786494408
Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim Crow era, when northern cities responded to the Great Migration by restricting black access to housing, transportation, accommodations and entertainment, while blacks created their own institutions, including baseball s Negro Leagues. As the political climate changed and some major league teams realized the necessity of integration, the American League proved painfully reluctant. With the exception of the Cleveland Indians, integration was slow and often ineffective. This book examines the integration of baseball widely viewed as a triumph through the experiences of the American League and finds only a limited shift in racial values. The teams accepted few black players and made no effort to alter management structures, and organized baseball remained an institution governed by tradition-bound owners.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Kuhn McGregor, emeritus professor of history at the University of Illinois-Springfield, taught environmental history, early American history, and the history of popular culture, including a course on baseball. He lives in Corning, New York.

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Verlag
McFarland & Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786494409
ISBN 13 
9780786494408
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Anzahl der Seiten
214
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