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Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
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| #1004099 in Books | Beacon Press | 2011-03-01 | 2011-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.00 x6.20l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An interesting perspective|By David Freydkin|I finished Raceball today. I found the book very informative, especially for those interested in baseball history. Rob Ruck provides an explanation as to why baseball has declined in the black community. The historian also explains the decline of professional baseball leagues in places such as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba|From Publishers Weekly|Ruck (The Tropic of Baseball) states the cold, hard facts of the Major Leagues' racist history, its vast economic benefits from the demolition of the once-proud Negro Leagues, and the current Latin player influx in his new book. Ruck, a pr
The colliding histories of black and Latin ballplayers in the major leagues have traditionally been told as a story of their shameful segregation and redemptive integration. Jackie Robinson jumped baseball’s color line to much fanfare, but integration was painful as well as triumphal. It gutted the once-vibrant Negro Leagues and often subjected Latin players to Jim Crow racism.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game | Rob Ruck. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
