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Shut out : a story of race and baseball in Boston
Author
Title
Shut out : a story of race and baseball in Boston / Howard Bryant.
ISBN
0203950909
1135297762
1135297835
1299998313
9780203950906
9781135297763
9781135297831
9781299998315
041592779X
9780415927796
Published
New York : Routledge, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Imagine Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, Bobby Doerr, and Willie Mays all on the same team, playing for the Boston Red Sox during the 194Os and 195Os. Think of how different those epic battles with the New York Yankees might have been with these four Hall of Famers playing together at Fenway Park. Think of how different Red Sox history would have been." "It is not a dream, for it could have happened. It should have happened. Williams and Mays could have roamed the outfield together and formed a devastating offensive tandem. Robinson and Doerr could have turned double plays in the same infield." "It never came to pass, and racism is the only reason why."
"Controversial and gripping, Shut Out traces this haunting practice of racism - chronicling the policies and personality of the seventy-year dynasty of the Yawkey family as well as a conflicted press that wrestled with racial issues - against the backdrop of Boston's own difficult struggle with race. Once the crucible of abolition, the city of Boston would over time become a symbol of racial intolerance, highlighted by the shattering busing crisis of the 1970s. The duality of the city's historical ideals versus its bitter racial collisions, Bryant shows, is nowhere better exemplified than inside the front office, the clubhouse, and on the field at Fenway Park."--Jacket.
"The Red Sox chose not to sign Jackie Robinson, who was humiliated during a 1945 tryout, and also the great Willie Mays four years later. Not only did the Red Sox fail to seize the chance to build a baseball Dream Team, argues Boston native and journalist Howard Bryant, but also compounded the mistake by continuing a disturbing pattern of ignoring talented black players, a decades-old legacy the Red Sox now fight to unlearn under new ownership and stars such as Pedro Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra."
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index.
Contents
Chapter 1 One
chapter 2 Two
chapter 3 Three
chapter 4 Four
chapter 5 Five
chapter 6 Six
chapter 7 Seven
chapter 8 Eight
chapter 9 Nine
chapter 10 Ten
chapter 11 Eleven
chapter 12 Twelve
chapter 13 Thirteen
chapter 4 teen
chapter 15 Fifteen
chapter 6 teen
chapter 17 Seventeen.
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