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Out of the shadows, African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson, edited and with an introduction by Bill Kirwin

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Out of the shadows, African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson, edited and with an introduction by Bill Kirwin

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

Out of the shadows

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bibliographydictionaries

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edited and with an introduction by Bill Kirwin

Sub title

African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson

Table Of Contents

The birth of the Cuban Giants: the origins of black professional baseball / Jerry Malloy -- When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line / Lee Lowenfish -- The year "Cool Papa" Bell lost the batting title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's plea for affirmative action / Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner -- Baseball and community: from Pittsburgh's hill to San Pedro's canefields / Rob Ruck -- The strange career of Sol White, black baseball's first historian / Jerry Malloy -- "Another chink in Jim Crow?" race and baseball on the northern plains, 1900-1935 / Scott Roper -- From Giants to Monarchs: the 1890 season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania / Jerry Jaye Wright -- Racial pioneering on the mound: Don Newcombe's social and psychological ordeal / Guy Waterman -- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson: the last female voice of the Negro Leagues / Jean Hastings Ardell -- Effa Manley, a major force in Negro baseball in the 1930s and 1940s / Gai Ingham Berlage -- Dick Allen, the Phillies, and racism / William C. Kashatus -- Nine principles of successful affirmative action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner

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Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson

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