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Long Taters - A Baseball Biography of George ""Boomer"" Scott (Paperback)
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Long Taters - A Baseball Biography of George ""Boomer"" Scott (Paperback)
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When African American first baseman George "Boomer" Scott made his
debut in the major leagues in 1966, he took the field for the
Boston Red Sox--the last major league team to field a black
ballplayer, only seven years before. An eight-time Gold Glove Award
winner, a three-time All-Star, and an important member of the Red
Sox 1967 Impossible Dream American League Champions, Scott stroked
271 "taters"--a term he coined for home runs that has been
memorialized in baseball lexicon. Yet throughout his career, the
outspoken player faced an ongoing struggle to gain racial
acceptance. This detailed biography chronicles Scott's youth in
violently racist Mississippi, his impressive 14-year professional
career, and the challenges he faced off the field. Based on
hundreds of hours of interviews with the former slugger, this work
celebrates one of Boston's legends and reveals the barriers that
still existed for black ball players years after Jackie Robinson
paved the way.
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