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Beating the Breaks
Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities
Av Rick Swaine
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much of this unawareness is due to the affected players themselves who downplay weaknesses and tend to minimize their disabilities, considering them just one of the chinks in the armor that …
Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole
The Jackie Robinson Generation in the Major Leagues, 1947-1959
Av Rick Swaine
Häftad, 2005
487 kr
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For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent change. Four other black players made their first, brief big-league appearances that year, followed by only two in 1948 and four in 1949. But by the end of 1959, 122 black ballplayers had …
Integration of Major League Baseball
A Team by Team History
Av Rick Swaine
Häftad, 2012
486 kr
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This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on …
Baseball's Comeback Players
Forty Major Leaguers Who Fell and Rose Again
Av Rick Swaine
Häftad, 2014
655 kr
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This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the player's career. The comeback players range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like …
Integration of Minor League Baseball
A History and Player Register, 1946-1959
Häftad, 2024
638 kr
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Though much has been written about Negro Leagues players and Black major leaguers of the integration era, little attention has been given to the accomplishments and struggles of Black minor league pioneers. This work is a history of minor league integration with complete records for the more than …
