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Stolen Dreams - The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War (Hardcover)
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Stolen Dreams - The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War (Hardcover)
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When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA
All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston,
South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of
integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and
the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field
with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League
team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament
by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white
teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state
tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome,
Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series.
But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in
the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and
not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the
Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the
Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization’s guests at the
World Series, where they heard spectators yell, “Let them play!
Let them play!” when the ballplayers were introduced. This became
a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared as
Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the torture
and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. Stolen Dreams is the
story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil
rights movement. It’s also the story of centuries of bigotry in
Charleston, South Carolina—where millions of enslaved people were
brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where
segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone
who challenged it did so at their own risk.
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