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Out of Left Field - Jews and Black Baseball (Paperback)
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Out of Left Field - Jews and Black Baseball (Paperback)
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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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