Sporting Justice

Miriam Wright is an Associate Professor of History at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She researches and teaches 20th-century Canadian history. Her recent work has focussed on race and sport in Canada, and on Chinese immigration to Newfoundland and Labrador.

1: Introduction
2: Living in a Racialized World: Chatham’s East End and the Black Community in the 1920s and 1930s
3: Origins: Early Black Baseball in Chatham, Buxton, and London, 1915-1927
4: A New Black Baseball Team in Chatham, 1933
5: Playing in Racialized Spaces: The 1934 Chatham City League Season
6: Becoming the All-Stars: The 1934 OBAA Championship
7: New Opportunities and Continued Racial Conflict in the 1935 Season
8: “All we ask is a fair break”: Baseball and Sporting Justice in the Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Later Years
9: After the All-Stars: Racial Integration, and the Next Generation of Black Baseball, 1940-1958
10: Conclusion: Baseball and Memory: Reflecting on Race, Heroes, and the All-Stars Years