Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (SPS) - Hardcover

Ruck, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252013220 ISBN 13: 9780252013225

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1986

Synopsis

Examines the influence of amateur and professional sports on Pittsburgh's Black community from the 1920s to the 1950s and discusses boxing, baseball, basketball, and football

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From the Back Cover:

A new preface updates this richly detailed look at the major role sport played in shaping Pittsburgh's black community from the Roaring Twenties through the Korean War. Rob Ruck reveals how sandlot, amateur, and professional athletics helped black Pittsburgh realize its potential for self-organization, expression, and creativity.

From Library Journal:

Ruck (History, Chatham Coll.) has written a fascinating account of sport in the Iron City's black community. Focusing on 20th-century sandlot baseball, he argues that teams like the Pittsburgh Crawfords "fulfilled vital social and community functions and served as a political arena . . . in which black struggles for recognition and equality were symbolically waged . . . " Making excellent use of oral history interviews, Ruck goes beyond mere sports trivia. He paints a vivid portrait of an urban black society and its love affair with a sporting life it produced and controlled. Highly recommended for educated laypeople and students of American social history. Anthony O. Edmonds, History Dept., Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0252013220
• ISBN 13: 9780252013225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238