| Conference |
Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (9th : 1997 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)
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| Publication |
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2000]
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| Copyright date |
©2000 |
| Description |
x, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Call # |
796.357 C |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Jackie Robinson, baseball, Brooklyn, and beyond / Peter Rutkoff -- Before Robinson -- William Clarence Matthews : "The Jackie Robinson of his day" / Karl Lindholm -- A story in Black and white : baseball and racism in 1938 / Chris Lamb -- Something to cheer about : the Negro leagues at the dawn of integration / James E. Overmyer -- Jackie Robinson and the American zeitgeist / William Simons -- Robinson and social change -- Working in the shadows of Rickey and Robinson : Bill Veeck, Larry Doby and the advancement of Black players in baseball / Peggy Beck -- Robinson's legacy : Black women and Negro baseball / Gai Ingham Berlage -- Ten years after : the baseball establishment, race, and Jackie Robinson / Ron Briley -- Nine principles of successful affirmative action : Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner -- Baseball, cricket, and social change : Jackie Robinson and Frank Worrell / Michael Malec and Hillary Beckles -- The legacy of Robinson -- The Black knight : a political portrait of Jackie Robinson / Steven Wisensale -- Jackie Robinson as media's mythological Black hero / Doug Battema -- The influence of Robinson on the serious baseball novel / Richard F. Peterson -- Jackie Robinson and the National Baseball Hall of Fame / David W. Findlay and Clifford E. Reid -- The great experiment fifty years later / Jules Tygiel. |
| Subject |
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Congresses.
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Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
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African American baseball players -- History -- Congresses.
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Baseball -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Addl. Author |
Rutkoff, Peter M., 1942-
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Hall, Alvin L.
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| Spine Ti |
Cooperstown Symposium, 1997 |
| ISBN |
0786408316 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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9780786408313 (softcover : alk. paper) : |
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