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1954

By Bill Madden

1954

By Bill Madden

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1954—A triumphant season for black ballplayers and the country Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season, drawn largely from exclusive recent interviews with the major players themselves, including Willie Mays and Larry Doby as well as New York baseball legends from that era: Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford of the Yankees, Monte Irvin of the Giants, and Carl Erskine of the Dodgers. 1954 transports readers across the baseball landscape of the time as future superstars such as Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and others entered the leagues and continued to integrate the sport. Weaving together the narrative of one of baseball's greatest seasons wit the racially charged events of that year—the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools—1954 demonstrates how our national pastime was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2015-03-10
Publication Date:
2015-03-10
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306823691
ISBN13:
9780306823695
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
525 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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