Correspondence Wm James 5

by Bruce Adelson

Book Overview

While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among them Hank Aaron, continued to struggle for acceptance on southern farm teams well into the 1960s. As Bruce Adelson writes, their presence in the South Atlantic, Carolina, and other minor leagues represented not only a quest for individual athletic achievement; simply by hitting, fielding, and signing autographs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918847
• ISBN13: 9780813918846
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher