The American Indian integration of baseball /
The American Indian Integration of Baseball describes the experiences and contributions of American Indians as they courageously tried to make their place in America's national game during the first half of the twentieth century." "Jeffrey Powers-Beck provides biographical profiles of...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2004]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | The American Indian Integration of Baseball describes the experiences and contributions of American Indians as they courageously tried to make their place in America's national game during the first half of the twentieth century." "Jeffrey Powers-Beck provides biographical profiles of forgotten Native players such as Elijah Pinnance, George Johnson, Louis Leroy, and Moses Yellow Horse, along with profiles of better-known athletes such as Jim Thorpe, Charles Albert Bender, and John Tortes Meyers. Combining analysis of popular-press accounts with records from boarding schools for Native youth, where baseball was used as a tool of assimilation, Powers-Beck shows how American Indians battled discrimination and racism to integrate American baseball."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803237456 9780803237452 9780803225091 0803225091 |