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Author Essington, Amy, author

Title The integration of the Pacific Coast League : race and baseball on the West Coast / Amy Essington
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League before World War II; 2. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League in the 1940s; 3. John Ritchey Integrates the San Diego Padres, 1948; 4. Momentum and Challenges, 1949; 5. The Pacific Coast League Integrates, 1950-52; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "An account of the desegregation of baseball's Pacific Coast League, the first American League of any sport to desegregate all of its teams"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pacific Coast League -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Pacific Coast League fast
Subject Baseball -- Pacific States -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in sports -- Pacific States
Discrimination in sports -- United States
Baseball -- United States -- History
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Baseball
Discrimination in sports
United States
United States -- Pacific States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496207098
1496207092
9781496207074
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