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Sto caricando le informazioni... Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Linedi Tom Dunkel
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Tom Dunkel’s Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball’s Color Line chronicles the unique 1930’s team in Bismarck, North Dakota that car dealer Neil Churchill assembled: an amalgam of the best players - black or white - that he could find. He manage to acquire some of the greatest Negro League players of the era: Quincy Troupe, Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, Hilton Smith, and the inimitable Satchel Paige, who is clearly the star of the show and the centerpiece of the narrative. In the chapter that introduces Paige, the author perfectly captures the larger-than-life personality and peculiarities of one of the dazzling pitchers the game has ever seen. In conveying the essence of the grassroots semipro game, Dunkel writes with a distinctive flair and a wry sense of humor. But beyond this intriguing but largely forgotten chapter in baseball history, he provides a wealth of historical, social and economic context to give the full picture of the impact of the Great Depression in the Great Plains. ( ) I am hesitant to give this book a starred rating, because it is a fascinating and enjoyable read but...like many baseball writers, Dunkel tends to digress from his theme by relating colorful, interesting, unusual baseball stories. Since Satchel Paige is one of his main characters, there are a lot of fascinating diversions, some of them familiar, some less so. But Dunkel's purpose is to talk about a Bismarck, ND, town team that integrated black and white semi-pro players in the 1930s. What is most fascinating about this is the context: black players had occasionally played with white players on various teams at levels below the major leagues but the 1930s was the period when segregation extended downward from the majors into semi-pro and amateur teams across America. Dunkel tells the story, but I wish there had been less of "and then Satchel did this" and more of how it felt to the black and white players on that Bismarck team to play together. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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