Black Baseball's Last Team Standing

The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The Birmingham Black Barons were a nationally known team in baseball's Negro leagues from 1920 through 1962. Among its storied players were Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, and Mule Suttles. The Black Barons played in the final Negro Leagues World Series in 1948 and were a major drawing card when barnstorming throughout the United States and parts of Canada. This book chronicles the team's history and presents the only comprehensive roster of the hundreds of men who wore the Black Barons uniform.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-06
Mått178 x 254 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor345
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476677880

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The “Bold”/“Coal” Black Barons (1919)2. The Negro Southern League (1920–22)3. Playing in Two Leagues (1923)4. Full Time in the NNL (1924)5. A Season of Struggle (1925)6. Satchel Paige and the Revival of the Negro Southern League (1926)7. Birmingham Returns to the Majors (1927)8. Misplaced Optimism (1928)9. A Season with Few Highlights (1929)10. Return to the Negro National League (1930)11. Return of the Negro Southern League (1931)12. The Worst Season Ever? (1932)13. Where Are the Black Barons? (1933)14. A New Season, a New Name (1934)15. Return of the Black Barons (1935)16. The End of an Era (1936)17. The Negro American League (1937–38)18. Death and Resurrection (1939–41)19. The War Years (1942–45)20. Two Seasons with Tommy Sampson (1946–47)21. Piper and Willie (1948–49)22. The Beginning of the End (1950)23. A New Division (1951)24. New Leadership and a Disputed Championship (1952)25. A Four-Team League (1953)26. Playing with Pride (1954)27. Gatemouth Moore and White Owners (1955)28. Black Barons or Giants? (1956)29. The Negro American League Rebounds (1957)30. Contraction (1958)31. A Brief Reprieve (1959)32. Last Team Standing? (1960–62)Appendix A: Year-by-Year Standings, Spring Training Sites, Opening Day Attendance, First-Pitch Honorees, No-Hitters, No-Hitters Against, East–West Game All-StarsAppendix B: Birmingham Black Barons All-Time RosterChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“In recent decades, the history of the National Negro Leagues has been the subject of numerous studies. This volume adds to that wealth of material by digging deeply into the storied past of the Birmingham Black Barons...Plott does yeoman work digging out as many facts as possible...[he] recounts the team's triumphs and disappointments effectively.... This is a no-frills documenting of what happened, year by year, to the Black Barons...valuable”—Booklist