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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powers-Beck, Jeffrey P., 1964- (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Baseball > Social aspects > United States > History.
Indian baseball players > United States > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Base-ball > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Joueurs de base-ball des Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination dans les sports > États-Unis.
Baseball > Social aspects.
Discrimination in sports.
Indian baseball players.
United States.
Baseball
Baseballspieler
Rassendiskriminierung
Inder.
USA.
History.
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Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • "Chief"
  • the American Indian integration of baseball
  • Carlisle Indian Industrial School baseball
  • The Nebraska Indians baseball team
  • Bender, Meyers, and Thorpe in the big leagues
  • The many trails of Louis Leroy
  • George Howard Johnson's career in professional baseball
  • The baseball legend of Moses Yellow Horse
  • Epilogue: anti-Indian caricature in major league baseball.