[PDF.33nw] Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (Great Lakes Books)

Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (Great Lakes Books)

[PDF.yp59] Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (Great Lakes Books)

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 | #3234362 in Books |  Wayne State Univ Pr |  1994-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.25 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 300 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| To understand Detroit, you must understand baseball|By Richard J. Gibson|and you cannot understand baseball without the Negro Leagues' Detroit Stars. The author's research doesn't just walk us through the lives and skills of the players, though he surely does that--it's placed carefully within the social context of the time--northern Jim Crow. And then there is the rowdy fun of|From Publishers Weekly|A prodigious researcher, Bak ( And Cobb Would Have Caught It ) not only tracked down occasional references to black baseball in the white press of the 1920s and early '30s, but also interviewed surviving players and fans. His book is a ple

In recalling the early part of this century in baseball history, casual fans tend to glorify legends like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. While these remarkable players dazzled fans and grabbed headlines, black players who were every bit as good went unnoticed outside the Negro leagues. Because a "gentleman's agreement" among the white owners of organized baseball banned blacks from the major and minor leagues from the 1880s through 1946, the Negro National League provided black ...

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