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1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever

Title: 1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever / by Bill Madden.
Author: Madden, Bill.
Publication: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of Perseus Books Group, 2014.

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Description

xiii, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Describes the 1954 World Series, when two black players went with their division-winning teams, the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians, to fight for the championship, seven years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line.
"Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how--and, in practice, when--did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball's famous "black experiment" did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players--Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks--in 1954. And as a relevant backdrop off the field, it was in May of that year that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation be outlawed in America's public schools. Featuring original interviews with key players and weaving together the narrative of one of baseball's greatest seasons with the racially charged events of that year, 1954 demonstrates how our national pastime--with the notable exception of the Yankees, who represented white supremacy in the game--was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance"--

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Call Number

Sc E 14-1111

ISBN

LCCN

2014000774

OCLC

856053171

Author

Madden, Bill.

Title

1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever / by Bill Madden.

Publisher

Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of Perseus Books Group, 2014.

Edition

First Da Capo Press edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1111