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Integrating the Orioles : baseball and race in Baltimore / Bob Luke.

Title
Integrating the Orioles : baseball and race in Baltimore / Bob Luke.
Author
Luke, Bob
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

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Description
x, 203 pages; 23 cm
Summary
" This book tells the story of the integration of the Orioles. The author describes how tensions between community leaders and team officials aborted negotiations to both increase black attendance and put an African American in the club's executive ranks"--
Subject
  • Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team) > History
  • Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team)
  • Discrimination in sports > Baltimore
  • Baseball > Social aspects > Baltimore
  • Baseball > Baltimore > History
  • Baseball
  • Baseball > Social aspects
  • Discrimination in sports
  • Race relations
  • Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations
  • Maryland > Baltimore
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781476662121
  • 1476662126
LCCN
^^2015048138
OCLC
908375489
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library