Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line...
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SKU: 9781469678856
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Author: Chris Holaday
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas by Holaday, Chris

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Dhs. 143.66

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Dhs. 143.66
Author: Chris Holaday
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Holaday illuminates many smaller stories along the way, including desegregation in Little League and American Legion baseball, the first Black players to play in the tiny foothills town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and the pipeline of Afro-Cuban players from Havana to the Carolina leagues.

By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game.



Author: Chris Holaday
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781469678856

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