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Out of Left Field - Jews and Black Baseball (Hardcover)
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Out of Left Field - Jews and Black Baseball (Hardcover)
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Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing
and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between
Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America.
In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports
entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from
Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish
team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the
segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Through in-depth research,
Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and
promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive
stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. Some Jewish
owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball's
Harlem Globetrotters--indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein
was very active in black baseball--that reaped financial benefits
for both owners and players but also played upon the worst
stereotypes of African Americans and prevented these black
"showmen" from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But
Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by
the traditional Jewish commitment to social justice, helped grow
the business of black baseball in the face of the oppressive Jim
Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writing for the
Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball's
segregation. In fact, the campaign to convince manager Branch
Rickey to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers was initiated by Daily
Worker sports writer Bill Mardo, in an open letter in the paper.
Deftly written and meticulously researched, Out of Left Field
offers a unique perspective on the economic and social negotiations
between blacks and Jews in the first half of the 20th century,
shedding new light on the intersection of race, religion, and
sports in America.
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