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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Branson, Douglas M.
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Doby, Larry.
American League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States.
Baseball -- United States -- History.
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Greatness in the sha...
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Greatness in the shadows : Larry Doby and the integration of the American League / Douglas M. Branson.
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Branson, Douglas M.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2016.
Subjects
Doby, Larry.
American League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States.
Baseball -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780803285521 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803285523 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
The coolest of them all? Mantle, Mays, or Doby? -- The Branch Rickey yardstick -- Bill Veeck compared -- Doby breaks the color line in the American League -- Doby's middle years: world championships, home run and RBI titles -- It takes a village (and more): efforts at breaking the color line in baseball -- The shadow cast by Rickey and Robinson -- The second shadow? A tale of two cities -- Playing in the American League -- The long shadow of Satchel Paige -- Should Paige have been the first? The Mantle shadow? Mickey, Mantle Boulevard, Mantle Museum, Mick Lit, Mick Legend, the MIck -- Conflation of the Mantle legend -- Willie Mays and "the catch" -- Casting their own shadows: Robinson, Doby, and the news media -- Doby's later years -- Doby, Robinson, baseball, and racism -- A seldom-remembered pioneer.
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"Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby joined Robinson in breaking the color barrier in the major leagues when he became the first black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to be a seven-time All-Star center fielder who led the Indians to two pennants. In many respects Robinson and Doby were equals in their baseball talent and experiences and had remarkably similar playing careers: both were well-educated, well-spoken World War II veterans and both had played spectacularly, albeit briefly, in the Negro Leagues. Like Robinson, Doby suffered brickbats, knock-down pitches, spit in his face, and other forms of abuse and discrimination. Doby was also a pioneering manager, becoming the second black manager after Frank Robinson. Well into the 1950s Doby was the only African American All-Star in the American League during a period in which fifteen black players became National League All-Stars. Why is Doby largely forgotten as a central figure in baseball's integration? Why has he not been accorded his rightful place in baseball history? Greatness in the Shadows attempts to answer these questions, bringing Doby's story to life and sharing his achievements and firsts with a new generation"--Publisher's website.
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