The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History
- ISBN-10
- 0786439033
- ISBN-13
- 9780786439034
- Category
- Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Author
- Rick Swaine
Description
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.
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