Money pitcher
Subtitle: Chief Bender and the tragedy of Indian assimilation
By: William C. Kashatus.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Bender, Charles Albert, 1883-1954.; Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) -- Biography.; Baseball players -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.; Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.; United States -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Charles Albert Bender was one of baseball's most talented pitchers. By the end of his major league career in 1925, he had accrued 212 wins and more than 1,700 strikeouts, and in 1953 he became the first American Indian elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. But as a high-profile Chippewa Indian in a bigoted society, Bender knew firsthand the trauma of racism. In Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation, William C. Kashatus offers the first biography of this compelling and complex figure."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Keystone Book"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mandowescence, 1884-1896; title: Carlisle, 1896-1902; title: Philadelphia, 1903-1905; title: Chief, 1906-1909; title: Dynasty, 1910-1914; title: Corrupted World Series, 1914; title: Feds, Phils, and Bushes, 1915-1930; title: Mending fences, 1931-1954; title: Legacy.