Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Dave Winfield (Foreword by)Publish date:2025-04-29Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ten Speed PressISBN-13:9781984863225ISBN-10:1984863223UPC:9781984863225Book Category:Sports & Recreation, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistorySize:10.13 x 8.78 x 1.19 inchesWeight:3.0931Product ID:SCNVA0T2TK
Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
An authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, up to today's game--by award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame. No sport has been more associated with America's sense of itself, with its identity, than...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ten Speed PressISBN-13:9781984863225ISBN-10:1984863223UPC:9781984863225Book Category:Sports & Recreation, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistorySize:10.13 x 8.78 x 1.19 inchesWeight:3.0931Product ID:SCNVA0T2TK
Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis. An award-winning essayist and culture critic, Early has published extensively, winning a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has been a consultant on the Ken Burns documentaries Baseball, Jazz, The Tenth Inning, Unforgivable Blackness, The...
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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