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Pete Hill : Black baseball's first superstar
- Title
- Pete Hill : Black baseball's first superstar / Bob Luke.
- Author
- Luke, Bob
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- x, 216 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Among early 20th century baseball players, John Preston "Pete" Hill (1882-1951) was considered the equal of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker--only skin color kept him out of the majors. A capable manager, Hill captained the Negro League's Chicago-based American Giants, led two expansion teams and retired from the sport as manager of the Baltimore Black Sox. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts, this first ever biography of Hill recounts the career of a neglected Hall of Famer in the context of the turbulent issues that surrounded him--segregation, women's suffrage, Prohibition and the Spanish flu"--
- Subject
- Hill, Pete, 1882-1951
- 1865-1999
- Negro leagues > History
- African American baseball players > Biography
- African American baseball managers > Biography
- Racism in sports > United States > History > 20th century
- Segregation > United States > History > 20th century
- African American baseball players
- Baseball players
- Racism
- African American baseball managers
- Racism in sports
- Segregation
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Negro leagues
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918
- United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- From Buena, Virginia, to Philly -- On the way to Chicago -- The hills arrive in Chicago -- The rambling giants -- Racial conflict on and off the field -- Riots and the noble experiment -- The Spanish flu -- President Wilson and the Suffragists -- Pete Hill on his own -- Finally: a league for black baseball -- Year two in Detroit -- On to Baltimore -- Pete's final moves -- Hall of fame.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-232
- ISBN
- 9781476688770
- 147668877X
- 9781476647814 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022049939
- OCLC
- 1314052780
- Author
- Luke, Bob, author.
- Title
- Pete Hill : Black baseball's first superstar / Bob Luke.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1865-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-232