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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Left on Base in the Bushes profiles minor league legends and near-misses from baseball's golden era, as well as unknown players and gifted storytellers. Newspaper and magazine stories are interwoven with comments gleaned from some 200 player interviews, many of them dating back to the 1970s, creating a colorful tapestry of baseball and the times"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dunkel traces the rise of a Bismarck integrated squad and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season, and the first National Semi-Pro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas--a decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues!
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Oral histories of Black minor league baseball players who played in the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness"--
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