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Blackball, the Black Sox and the Babe - Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season (Paperback)
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Blackball, the Black Sox and the Babe - Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season (Paperback)
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Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White
Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919
World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of
four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in
1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It
highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis, the longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball; Babe
Ruth, the great pitcher and slugger who changed the game forever;
Buck Weaver, the true lone innocent among the Black Sox players who
threw the 1919 World Series; and Rube Foster, the fine pitcher,
imaginative manager, and great administrator of blackball who
founded the Negro National League. Key events that affected the
season and the history of baseball are discussed. Nineteen-twenty
was the year that Ruth shattered his own home run record and began
a hitting spree that brought in record numbers of fans to the
ballparks. It was the year that Rube found a way for large numbers
of African-Americans to play the game meaningfully, before loyal
crowds, despite Jim Crow laws that kept them out of the majors and
minors.
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