Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams - Paperback
by Don Zminda
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Language:EnglishPublisher:3 Fields BooksISBN-13:9780252088490ISBN-10:252088492UPC:9780252088490Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:History, State & LocalSize:10.45 x 4.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC8QM73EP3
Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams
On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. The future Hall of Famers began their Chicago baseball careers against the backdrop of a 1951 race riot in suburban Cicero, where a white mob abetted by local police attacked a building that had rented...
Language:EnglishPublisher:3 Fields BooksISBN-13:9780252088490ISBN-10:252088492UPC:9780252088490Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:History, State & LocalSize:10.45 x 4.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC8QM73EP3
Don Zminda is a sports historian and the former vice president and director of research at STATS LLC. He is the author of Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 and The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman.
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