Black baseball out of season
Subtitle: pay for play outside of the Negro leagues
By: William F. McNeil.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786429011
Subjects: Negro leagues -- History; Baseball -- United States -- History; African American baseball players -- History; Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History
Description: "This book tells the story of the thousands of Black professional baseball players whose talents were played out in the undiscovered world of the Negro leagues during the twentieth century. Chapter One introduces the swamplands of Florida where two teams of Negro athletes began to gain national attention for their performances in Palm Beach"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: All roads lead to Florida; title: Cuban paradise; title: 25th Infantry Regiment baseball team; title: California, here I come; title: Barnstorming; title: Puerto Rican winters; title: Dominican Republic adventures; title: Far away in Venezuela; title: Other venues; title: Looking back; title: Appendix: Negro league player statistics.