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The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History

The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History

Paperback

Black American HistoryBaseball & Softball

ISBN10: 1476693765
ISBN13: 9781476693767
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 5 2024
Pages: 233
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.74
Language: English

This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.

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