The Kings of Casino Park : Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932.
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the & ldquo;lynch law center of Louisiana. & rdquo; race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the w...
| Основен автор: | Aiello, Thomas. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2011.
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Kings of Casino Park : Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The 1932 Negro Southern League; 1. The Horror: Race Culture in the "Lynch Law Center of louisiana"; 2. The Jazz age and the Depression: The Different Trajectories of Monroe and Black Baseball in the 1920s; 3. The flood: Water, Race, and the Monarchs in Early 1932; 4. The Monarchs and the Major Leagues: The State of Black Baseball in 1932; 5. Spring Training: The Monarchs, the Crawfords, and the Negro Southern League; 6. The First Half: April-July 1932; 7. The Southern against the South: The first- Half Pennant Controversy.
- 8. The Second Half: July-August 19329. The World Series: September-October 1932; 10. After September: The Season, the Monarchs, and Monroe in the Popular and Historical Mind; Conclusion: "We Have Yet to Find a Moses"; Appendix 1. 1932 Monroe Monarchs Schedule and Results; Appendix 2. Timeline of 1932 Player/Personnel Acquisitions; Appendix 3. Monroe Monarchs Roster Breakdown and Comparison; Appendix 4. Statistical Analysis of the Available Data for the 1932 Monroe Monarchs; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index; Illustrations follow page 34; Tables follow page 80.