1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever

by Bill Madden

Book Overview

1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year--the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education , that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools--Larry Doby's Indians won an American League record 111 games, dethroned the five-straight World Series champion Yankees, and went on to play Willie Mays's Giants in the first World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306823322
• ISBN13: 9780306823329
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"