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When Baseball Went White - Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime (Paperback)
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When Baseball Went White - Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime (Paperback)
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The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball's color
barrier in 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is
the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War,
baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly
open game. How, then, did the game become so firmly segregated that
it required a trailblazer like Robinson? The answer, Ryan A.
Swanson suggests, has everything to do with the politics of
"reconciliation" and a wish to avoid the issues of race that an
integrated game necessarily raised. The history of baseball during
Reconstruction, as Swanson tells it, is a story of lost
opportunities. Thomas Fitzgerald and Octavius Catto (a Philadelphia
baseball tandem), for example, were poised to emerge as pioneers of
integration in the 1860s. Instead, the desire to create a "national
game"-professional and appealing to white northerners and
southerners alike-trumped any movement toward civil rights.
Focusing on Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Richmond-three cities
with large Black populations and thriving baseball clubs-Swanson
uncovers the origins of baseball's segregation and the mechanics of
its implementation. An important piece of sports history, his work
also offers a better understanding of Reconstruction, race, and
segregation in America.
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