The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues

Historians Reappraise Black Baseball

Buch | Softcover

323 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6514-6 (ISBN)

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How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Drawing on the most comprehensive data available, including stats from more than 2,000 interracial games, this study finds that black baseball was very good indeed.

How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Some experts maintain that the quality of play was equal to that of the American and National Leagues. Some believe the Negro Leagues should be part of Major League Baseball's official record and that more Negro League players should be in the Hall of Fame. Skeptics contend that while many players could be rated highly, NL organizations were minor league at best.

Drawing on the most comprehensive data available, including stats from more than 2,000 interracial games, this study finds that black baseball was very good indeed. Negro leaguers beat the big leaguers more than half the time in head-to-head contests, demonstrated stronger metrics within their own leagues and excelled when finally allowed into the majors. The authors document the often duplicitous manner in which MLB has dealt with the legacy of the Negro Leagues, and an appendix includes the scores and statistics from every known contest between Negro League and Major League teams.

Visual artist and teacher Todd Peterson lives in Overland Park, Missouri. His work has been published in Baseball Research Journal and Black Ball.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Equality

Baseball Is the Music of Mathematics

Larry Lester

The Case for the Negro Leagues

Todd Peterson

Measuring Equality: A Statistical Comparison of the Negro Leagues to the Major Leagues Based on the 1925 Season

Richard J. Puerzer

Gray Area: Homestead vs. the Minor Leagues

Scott Simkus

The Color of Money: Salaries and Performance in Pre–and Post-Integration Baseball

Michael Haupert

Winning in the Crucible of White-Hot Competition

Jeffery S. Williams

The Top Ten Reasons Why the Negro Leagues Should Be Declared a Major League

Ted Knorr

Part Two. Equity

Hotel Resorts and the Emergence of the Black Baseball Professional: Riverine and Maritime Communities, 1867–1890

James E. Brunson III

Leading Off: The Cuban Giants

Tony Kissel

Rube Foster: Negro League Giant

Robert C. Cottrell

John Donaldson: Restoring the Legacy of Segregated Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher

Pete Gorton

The Measure of Failure: Atlanta Baseball and Community Development in the 1930s and 1970s

Thomas Aiello

Changing the Way They Do Business: Jackie Robinson, Integration and the Origins of Organizational Culture in Organized Baseball

Michael E. Lomax

Separate but Unequal

Philip J. Lowry

Monuments: The Shaping of Negro Leagues Public Memory

Josh Howard

Appendix I: NLB vs. MLB, 1885–1924

Appendix II: NLB vs. MLB All-Stars, 1902–1948

Appendix III: NLB vs. MLB Batting, Pitching and Fielding Statistics, 1886–1948

Appendix IV: Batting and Pitching Statistics of Negro Leaguers in MLB and Triple A

Appendix V: Black Minor League Batting and Pitching Leaders, 1946–1975

Appendix VI: MLB/NLB Throwback Games, 1994–2019

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6514-1 / 1476665141
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6514-6 / 9781476665146
Zustand	Neuware