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1954A triumphant season for black ballplayers and the country
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season, drawn largely from exclusive recent interviews with the major players themselves, including Willie Mays and Larry Doby as well as New York baseball legends from that era: Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford of the Yankees, Monte Irvin of the Giants, and Carl Erskine of the Dodgers. 1954 transports readers across the baseball landscape of the time as future superstars such as Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and others entered the leagues and continued to integrate the sport. Weaving together the narrative of one of baseball’s greatest seasons wit the racially charged events of that yearthe same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of the races be outlawed in America’s public schools1954 demonstrates how our national pastime was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance.
Publisher : Da Capo; Illustrated edition (March 10, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0306823691
ISBN-13 : 978-0306823695
Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book easy to read and informative. They appreciate the historical accounts of baseball seasons and the author’s writing style. The book provides a good way to understand the rise of blacks in baseball and the challenges they faced as they entered the game. Readers praise the author’s honesty and integrity, saying the author got it right.
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