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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dunkel, Tom, author.     Subjects     Churchill, Neil Orr, 1891-1969.     Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982.     Trouppe, Quincy, 1912-     Smith, Hilton, 1907-1983.     Bismarck Churchills (Baseball team) -- History.     Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History.     Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.     Semi-professional baseball -- United States -- History.     Racism in sports -- United States -- History.     African American baseball players -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dunkel, Tom, author.       by title:      Color blind : the fo...         MARC Display

Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line / Tom Dunkel. by Dunkel, Tom, author. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013. Subjects Churchill, Neil Orr, 1891-1969.   Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982.   Trouppe, Quincy, 1912-   Smith, Hilton, 1907-1983.   Bismarck Churchills (Baseball team) -- History.   Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History.   Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.   Semi-professional baseball -- United States -- History.   Racism in sports -- United States -- History.   African American baseball players -- History. ISBN:  0802120121 9780802120120 Description:  xiii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  During the Great Depression, in drought stricken Bismarck, North Dakota, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was assembled by one of the sport's most unlikely champions. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues, car dealer Neil Churchill signed the best players he could find, regardless of race, and fielded an integrated squad that took on all comers in spectacular fashion. When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere, especially in the large swaths of the country without a Major League team. With civic pride on the line, rivalries were fierce and teams often signed ringers to play alongside the town dentist, the insurance salesman, and the teen prodigy. But nothing could quite compare to Chrysler dealer Neil Churchill's team in Bismarck. Years ahead of his time, Churchill added stars from the Negro Leagues, including Quincy Trouppe, Hilton Smith, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, and the biggest star of them all, Satchel Paige. Set against the backdrop of the Great Plains and the Great Depression, Color Blind immerses the reader in the wild and wonderful world of independent baseball, with its tough competition and its novelty -- from all-brother teams and a prison team (who only played home games, naturally) to one from a religious commune that sported Old Testament beards. Dunkel traces the rise of the Bismarck squad, and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season, and the first National Semipro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.35764 Du Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.35764 Dunkel Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.35764 Du Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.35764 Du Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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