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Dunkel, Tom.
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Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in sports -- History.
Semi-professional baseball -- History.
Racism in sports -- History.
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Dunkel, Tom.
Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in sports -- History.
Semi-professional baseball -- History.
Racism in sports -- History.
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Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line / Tom Dunkel.
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Dunkel, Tom.
Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013.
Call #:
796
.357
D919c
Subjects
Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in sports -- History.
Semi-professional baseball -- History.
Racism in sports -- History.
ISBN:
9780802120120
0802120121
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 345 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-345).
Contents:
Preface: Before 42 -- Coming together. Prairieland of opportunity ; Grasshoppers and hickory sticks ; Birth of a salesman ; Worlds apart ; Over the color line ; Throwing fire ; Showtime ; Nameless dread -- Playing together. Come and gone ; Feeling the heat ; Marriages and separations ; Cat and moose ; Long rifle rides again ; "A riotous opera of extra-base hits..." -- Tested together. Little man, big idea ; Gunfight at the cowtown corral ; Big gun ; The Erle of Oklahoma ; Last team standing ; "Plenty of barn room" ; Endings ; Deep smoke winding.
Summary:
Dunkel traces the rise of a Bismarck, North Dakota, integrated semi-professional baseball team and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season, and the first National Semi-Pro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas--a decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues.
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