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Blackball, the Black Sox and the Babe

Robert C. Cottrell
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert C. Cottrell EAN: 9780786411641 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-12-18 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, REFERENCE / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: sport, History: specific events and topics, Baseball

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      Robert C. Cottrell is a professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He lives in Chico.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert C. Cottrell EAN: 9780786411641 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-12-18 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, REFERENCE / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: sport, History: specific events and topics, Baseball

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      Robert C. Cottrell is a professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He lives in Chico.

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