Greatness in the Shadows
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-8552-1 (ISBN)
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Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby joined Robinson in breaking the color barrier in the major leagues when he became the first Black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to be a seven-time All-Star center fielder who led the Indians to two pennants. In many respects Robinson and Doby were equals in their baseball talent and experiences and had remarkably similar playing careers: both were well-educated, World War II veterans and both had played spectacularly, albeit briefly, in the Negro Leagues. Like Robinson, Doby suffered brickbats, knock-down pitches, spit in his face, and other forms of abuse and discrimination. Doby was also a pioneering manager, becoming the second black manager after Frank Robinson.
Well into the 1950s Doby was the only Black All-Star in the American League during a period in which fifteen black players became National League All-Stars. Why is Doby largely forgotten as a central figure in baseball’s integration? Why has he not been accorded his rightful place in baseball history? Greatness in the Shadows attempts to answer these questions, bringing Doby’s story to life and sharing his achievements and firsts with a new generation.
Douglas M. Branson is the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of nineteen books, including No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom; The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America’s Public Companies; and Three Tastes of Nuoc Mam: The Brown Water Navy and Visits to Vietnam.
PrefaceNote on Monetary Conversions1. The Coolest of Them All? Mantle, Mays, or Doby?2. The Branch Rickey Yardstick3. Bill Veeck Compared4. Doby Breaks the Color Line in the American League5. Doby's Middle Years: World Championships, Home Run and RBI Titles6. It Takes a Village (and More): Efforts at Breaking the Color Line in Baseball7. The Shadow Cast by Rickey and Robinson8. The Second Shadow? A Tale of Two Cities9. Playing in the American League10. The Long Shadow of Satchel Paige11. Should Paige Have Been the First?12. The Mantle Shadow? Mickey, Mantle Boulevard, Mantle Museum, Mick Lit, Mick Legend, The Mick13. Conflation of the Mantle Legend14. Willie Mays and "The Catch"15. Casting Their Own Shadows: Robinson, Doby, and the News Media16. Doby's Later Years17. Doby, Robinson, Baseball, and Racism18. A Seldom-Remembered PioneerPostscript on Baseball StatisticsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.03.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 23 photographs, 3 tables |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-8552-3 / 0803285523 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-8552-1 / 9780803285521 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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