9780415927796 - Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston von Bryant, Howard (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Red Sox fans, America's most passionate baseball devotees, have long blamed the team's failure to win the World Series on the Curse of the Bambino, brought on by trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. But a more troubling losing streak began in 1945 when Jackie Robinson entered Fenway Park for a tryout and was greeted with condescension and a hostility that would define the franchise for half a century. The Red Sox failed to sign Hall of Famers Robinson and Willie Mays beginning a disturbing pattern of passing on talented black players. Since then, argues Boston native and sportswriter Howard Bryant, the team - more specifically the seventy year ownership by the Yawkey family -- has garnered a reputation as one of the most stubbornly racist teams in baseball, prompting generations of black players to view a fabled team and historically rich city with trepidation. Controversial and gripping, 'Shut Out' traces this haunting legacy of racism against the backdrop of Boston's struggles with race relations. Once the crucible of abolitionist humanism, the city has become a symbol of racial intolerance, and this duality, Bryant shows, is nowhere better exemplified than in the Red Sox. As the Red Sox move to lift the 'curse' with both new ownership and a diverse roster of players like Nomar Garciaparra and Pedro Martinez, 'Shut Out' tells the volatile history of race - and the difficult healing process -- in Boston through the lens of its baseball team.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. vii, [1], 248, [4] pages. Footnotes. No Illustrations, Table of Contents, or Index in this Advanced Uncorrected Proof copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To Rick, Thank you for the support! Howard Bryant. Howard Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is an American author, sports journalist, and broadcaster. He writes for ESPN and ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and appears r on ESPN Radio. He is a panelist on The Sports Reporters and since 2006 a sports correspondent for Weekend Edition on National Public Radio. Bryant began his career in 1991 with the Oakland Tribune covering sports and technology, before moving to the San Jose Mercury News from 1995 to 2001. In San Jose, Bryant covered the telecommunications industry before returning to sports to cover the Oakland Athletics. He then reported for the Bergen Record, covering the New York Yankees, before joining the Boston Herald from 2002 to 2005. Bryant joined the Washington Post, where he covered the Washington Redskins from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESPN in August 2007. In 2002, Bryant published his first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which won the CASEY Award for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. In 2005, he published Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2005. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron was published in 2010, won the CASEY Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010. Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed. Derived from a Kirkus review: A withering look at the institutionalized racism of the Boston Red Sox, painted against the larger backdrop of citywide racism, from journalist Bryant. Everyone knows that the Bosox traded away Babe Ruth, but less well known is that they passed on the opportunities to snare Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays. In this scorching and well-documented history of the team's racial attitudes, Bryant describes how the bigotry of the Yawkey family, owners of the club, and such important front-office and managerial figures as Eddie Collins, Joe Cronin, and Pinky Higgins resulted in the Red Sox being the last teamâ"this in a city that cast itself as a bastion of toleranceâ"to cross the color line. But Boston's image of liberalism, as Bryant neatly sketches, was smoke and mirrors, showing its true face in the busing crisis of the 1970s, and, more insidiously, through "its hidden presuppositions of how black people should act, especially around whites." Kicking and screaming, Boston signed its first black player in 1959, but that was not to be the end of it. From 1979 to 1984, the team had only two active black players, and even the team greatsâ"Reggie Smith, Jim Rice, Ellis Burksâ"never felt at home in racially tense Boston; black players often referred to their stint with the team as a "jail sentence." Even in the '80s, there was a country-club attitude that allowed the racist Elks Club to entertain Bosox playersâ"whites only. Bryant uses a number of lenses to gain a wide perspective on the situation: those of reporters like Dave Egan, Wendell Smith, and Peter Gammons; players from other sports, like Bill Russell of the Celtics; the ebb and flow of Boston politics; and the racial atmosphere that keeps Boston at a simmer, ready to corral the black community, as it did in the Charles Stuart case. A taut story, lucidly told. That the Bosox hadn't won a World Series in umpteen years is embarrassing; the legacy of racism, though, is poisonous. Advanced Uncorrected Proof--pre first printing.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 278 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. "Out at Home" is the story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native sports writer Howard Bryant. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFFJ; JFSL; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612. . 2002. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.