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The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955 - A Devil's Bargain (Hardcover)
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The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955 - A Devil's Bargain (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Sports History
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This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's
bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black
baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a
result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging
and even ensuring the demise of those same black leagues. Taking a
thematic approach, this book focuses each of its chapters on a
singular event or phenomenon from and for each decade of the period
covered, a period that spans the roughly four decades of the black
leagues' existence. Thus, the book drills down on a handful of
representative events and phenomena to present a history of the
black press and black baseball. Themes include the many ways team
owners and the weekly newspapers' editors and writers worked in
concert to build up the leagues, the paired fortunes of black
players and black writers, the desperation to save the Negro
leagues when it became clear integration threatened their survival,
and finally the black press's response to the residues of
baseball's decades of segregation.
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