Title: Money pitcher
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Baseball players, Biography, Cultural assimilation, Indians of North America, Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team), Race relations, Baseball, biography, Indians of north america, cultural assimilation, United states, race relations, Indians of north america, biography
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
People: Charles Albert Bender (1883-1954)
LC classification: GV865.B36 K37 2006