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Todd Peterson - Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues

Historians Reappraise Black Baseball

Av Todd Peterson

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How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Some experts maintain that the quality of play was equal to that of the American and National Leagues. Some believe the Negro Leagues should be part of Major League Baseball's official record and that more Negro League players should be in the Hall of Fame. Skeptics contend that while many players could be rated highly, NL organizations were minor league at best.Drawing on the most comprehensive data available, including stats from more than 2,000 interracial games, this study finds that black baseball was very good indeed. Negro leaguers beat the big leaguers more than half the time in head-to-head contests, demonstrated stronger metrics within their own leagues and excelled when finally allowed into the majors. The authors document the often duplicitous manner in which MLB has dealt with the legacy of the Negro Leagues, and an appendix includes the scores and statistics from every known contest between Negro League and Major League teams.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-12-11
  • Mått: 178 x 254 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 572 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 323
  • Förlag: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN: 9781476665146
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Visual artist and teacher Todd Peterson lives in Overland Park, Missouri. His work has been published in Baseball Research Journal and Black Ball.

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“How good were the Negro Leagues? Conventional thinking has dictated that, while stars from the Negro Leagues (Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and many others) were every bit the equal of, if not superior to, Major League standouts, the overall quality of Negro Leagues play was inferior to that of the majors. This collection of essays by baseball historians, many affiliated with the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR), tells a different story.... the authors have assembled all the available data and reassessed it in a wealth of revealing ways, including a comparison of all games played between 1920 and 1948 between Negro League teams and major leaguers...Peterson dives much deeper into the stats in his contribution, ‘The Case for the Negro Leagues,’ which analyzes available pitching and hitting records to show that in every area the Negro Leagues either outperform or are equal to Major League numbers...an important contribution to baseball history”—Booklist

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