Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball

by Rebecca T. Alpert

Book Overview

Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America.

In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the segregated world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195399005
• ISBN13: 9780195399004
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"