Black Baseball Out Of Season
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Black Baseball Out of Season
Author | : William F. McNeil |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476600627 |
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Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured the country after the regular season ended, or by playing in the organized winter leagues that operated in Florida, California, and several Caribbean and Central and South American countries. This history recounts the experiences of American black ballplayers outside of the Negro Leagues--often in places where a lack of prejudice contrasted sharply with conditions at home. Tracing the development of the game in each location and the unique character of each winter league, it details the contributions of the Negro League players and collects their statistics in each of the winter leagues.
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