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  • Play Harder

    The Triumph of Black Baseball in America

    by Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame ...
    “A vital and gripping” (The Washington Post) 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.FINALIST: CASEY AWARD FOR THE BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEARNo sport has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Play Harder

    The Triumph of Black Baseball in America

    by Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson, Reynaldo Piniella, Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    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 baseball. ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Level Playing Field

    African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports

    by Gerald L. Early ...
    Series Book 1 - Alain Locke Lecture Series
    As Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don’t expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports have African Americans actually found that elusive level ground. But at the same time, black players offer an ironic perspective on the athlete-hero, for they represent a group historically held to be without social honor.In his first new ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman

    Edited by Matthew Calihman, Gerald Early ...
    Series Book 153 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today.This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

    Edited by Gerald Early ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and commercial exploitation of mostly poor young ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Bruiser

    by Tully ...
    A picture of life in the boxing ring“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—from the ForewordWhen The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer praised Jim Tully’s gritty boxing novel for its authenticity—a hard-earned attribute. Twenty-eight years before the ... Read more

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    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sports in American Life

    A History

    by Richard O. Davies ...
    The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history.Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • When to Stop the Cheering?

    The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball

    by Brian Carroll ...
    Series series Studies in African American History and Culture
    *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).**Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball*When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Calculus of Color

    The Integration of Baseball's American League

    by Robert Kuhn McGregor ...
    In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges--population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim Crow era, when northern cities responded to the Great Migration by restricting black access to housing, transportation, accommodations and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Baseball

    A History of America's Favorite Game

    by George Vecsey ...
    Series Book 25 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The NumberIn Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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