THE INTEGRATION OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. A Team by Team History

Swaine, Rick

ISBN 10: 0786439033 / ISBN 13: 9780786439034

Published by McFarland & Co Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2009

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This work is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. The book contains photographs, illustrations, an integration timeline, appendices, chapter notes, a bibliography, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. Seller Inventory # 021201

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE INTEGRATION OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. A ...

Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, NC

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and its integration strategy's effect on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.

About the Author:

Society for American Baseball Research member Rick Swaine has been a contributor to The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime. Semi-retired from an accounting career, he coaches youth baseball and still plays in an adult league for the Tallahassee Classics. Swaine is also the author of The Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole (2006) and Beating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities (2004) and lives in the Tallahassee, Florida area.