The Veracruz Blues
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The Veracruz Blues
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Author : Mark Winegardner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1997-02
The Veracruz Blues written by Mark Winegardner and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-02 with Fiction categories.
Based on actual events during the turbulent, postwar baseball days of 1946, this captivating, darkly comic novel tells of a group of American players who, frustrated by their treatment at the hands of the major league owners, begin defecting to a Mexican baseball league.
The Rise Of The Latin American Baseball Leagues 1947 1961
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Author : Lou Hernández
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-10-10
The Rise Of The Latin American Baseball Leagues 1947 1961 written by Lou Hernández and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Major League Baseball today would be unrecognizable without the large number of Latin American players and managers filling its ranks. Their strong influence on the sport can trace its beginnings to professional leagues established south of the border and in the Caribbean nations in the 1940s. This narrative history of Latin American baseball leagues during the 1940s and 1950s provides an in-depth, year-by-year chronicle of seasonal leagues in the seven primary baseball-playing areas in the region: Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The success of these leagues, and their often acrimonious competition with U.S. Organized Baseball, eventually ushered in a new era of contract concessions from owners and general labor advancements for players that forever changed the game.
That S True Of Everybody
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Author : Mark Winegardner
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2002
That S True Of Everybody written by Mark Winegardner and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
A collection of stories offers portraits of such offbeat characters as a libidinous poet who learns the true meaning of harassment and the bowling alley proprietor whose artist daughter specializes in painting phalluses.
Crooked River Burning
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Author : Mark Winegardner
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2001
Crooked River Burning written by Mark Winegardner and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
Set in Cleveland, this sweeping tale of romance and social turmoil follows two ill-fated lovers on the twenty-year odyssey that begins in the turbulence of the 1950s and 1960s. By the author of The Veracruz Blues. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
South Of The Color Barrier
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Author : John Virtue
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2007-10-10
South Of The Color Barrier written by John Virtue and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hastened the integration of major league baseball. During the decade that preceded Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, almost 150 players from the Negro League played in Mexico, most of them recruited by Pasquel.
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Writers And Their Work
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Author : Geoff Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Writers And Their Work written by Geoff Hamilton and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with American fiction categories.
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Invisible Ball Of Dreams
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Author : Emily Ruth Rutter
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-04-30
Invisible Ball Of Dreams written by Emily Ruth Rutter and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson's momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.
Major League Rebels
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Author : Robert Elias
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-04-13
Major League Rebels written by Robert Elias and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America. Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on controversial issues; but throughout the sport’s history, there have been many players who were willing to stand up and fight for what was right. In Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire, Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country’s dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within their profession and their country. Elias and Dreier profile the courageous players who demanded better working conditions, battled against corporate power, and challenged America’s unjust wars, imperialism, and foreign policies, resisting the brash patriotism that many link with the “national pastime.” American history can be seen as an ongoing battle over wealth and income inequality, corporate power versus workers’ rights, what it means to be a “patriotic” American, and the role of the United States outside its borders. For over 100 years, baseball activists have challenged the status quo, contributing to the kind of dissent that creates a more humane society. Major League Rebels tells their inspiring stories.
Appropriating Hemingway
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Author : Ron McFarland
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-03
Appropriating Hemingway written by Ron McFarland and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
In more than 30 novels, several short stories, graphic novels, movies, plays and poems, Ernest Hemingway has been introduced or "appropriated" as an important fictional character. This book is an inquiry into that phenomenon from various perspectives--including that of fan fiction--and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer.
The Bona Fide Legend Of Cool Papa Bell
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Author : Lonnie Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2021-02-09
The Bona Fide Legend Of Cool Papa Bell written by Lonnie Wheeler and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The ï¬?rst full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’s speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark. In The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell, experienced baseball writer and historian Lonnie Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, a key member of some of the greatest Negro League teams in history. Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses. Wheeler charts Bell’s ups and downs in life and in baseball, in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he went to escape American racism and MLB’s color line. Rich in context and suffused in myth, this is a treat for fans of baseball history.