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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Playing in shadows
    sub title: Texas and Negro league baseball
  name:
    name part: Fink, Rob (Robert)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Offers the first book-length history of the Texas Negro Leagues and the impact African-American Texans had on baseball during the first half of the twentieth century. Previously untold historical narrative contributes to sport history studies while asserting Texas's role in the formation, growth and decline of African-American baseball.
  table of contents: Life in the shadows -- The semiprofessional game : the roots of Black baseball -- Andrew "Rube" Foster : the father of the Negro Leagues -- Smokey Joe, Biz, and the Devil : Black Texans who shaped the game -- The Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana League : professional Black baseball comes to Texas -- The beginning of the end : the decline of the semiprofessional game -- The Houston Eagles and the end of Negro League baseball -- The lasting legacy -- Appendix: Negro League veterans who played in Texas.
  note: Rob Fink ; foreword by Cary D. Wintz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-154) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Negro leagues
    geographic: Texas
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
    geographic: Texas
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Baseball players
    geographic: Texas
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: African American baseball players
    geographic: Texas
    topic: History
  classification: GV863.T42 T495 2010
  classification: 796.357/640973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sport in the American West
  identifier: 9780896727014 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0896727017 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009044286
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 091103
    record change date: 20151202112220.0
    record identifier: in00002688058