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Author Newman, Roberta J.

Title Black baseball, black business : race enterprise and the fate of the segregated dollar / Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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Contents Black business and consciousness in context -- Capitalizing black baseball and the African American economic ecosystem, 1914-1929 -- The depression, black business, and black baseball revisited, 1930-1939 -- The second wave and the business of black baseball, 1939-1946 -- Desegregating baseball and its economic implications, 1946-1948 -- Black baseball's post-Robinson challenge, 1949-1963 -- Postscript: what has the promise wrought?
Summary An extraordinary history of the negro leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Negro leagues -- Economic aspects
Business enterprises, Black -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Business enterprises, Black
Discrimination in sports
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961-
LC no. 2013033677
ISBN 9781617039553
1617039551
9781626740082
1626740089