- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (1 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071408207
- ISBN-13: 978-0071408202
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,633,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Snyder's [book] is as thorough a history of a Negro league team as can be culled from the available sources... not just the history of a team but the tale of one city in all its social complexity. -- New York Times Book Review; A fascinating, little-known chapter in the familiar story of baseball's color line. -- Starred Review, Booklist; [A] fascinating and largely untold story... -- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly
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A witty and frank look at the ad biz from one of its most respected voices Advertising has become an endless stream of cliches, cheesy productions, miscast celebrities, and gratuitous sex--and take-no-prisoners Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield has had enough. In the often hilarious, always dead-on And Now a Few Words from Me, Garfield looks at the best and the worst in today's advertising as he tells advertising pros that it's time to swallow their own egos, return clients' rights to the forefront, and--once and for all--eliminate bad advertising from the face of the earth.
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The day the Babe crashed into the right-field pavilion at Griffith Stadium was one of many afternoons Sam Lacy spent at the ballpark. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The day the Babe crashed into the right-field pavilion at Griffith Stadium was one of many afternoons Sam Lacy spent at the ballpark. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
an enrossing account of black baseball in the 30s and 40s a well researched volume
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Homestead Grays - news to even this 4th generation DC guy!
29 Jan 2003
Format:Hardcover
Brad Snyder shows us that early 20th Century African-Americans weren't only progressing in academics at the nearby venerated Howard University; they were also making strides in professional sports by sharing Griffith Stadium, which was practically on Howard U's campus,with the beloved but hapless Washington Senators!
That a "negro" team was able to utilize the very same facilities as the Senators in the still very Southern and provincial Washington, DC of the 1930's - 1950's came as a shock to me.
DC was the last NFL team to integrate pro football with Bobby Mitchell in the late 1950's; George Preston Marshall was no civil rights activist, and had to be forced to integrate his Redskins.
It is, therefore, thrilling to see how Washington, DC played a part in the eventuality of pro sports integration, realized in Jackie Robinson's signing in 1947. Snyder tells an interesting tale that all who study the sociological development of a fully integrated Major League Baseball must read!
(Now Brad....send Selig a note to bring us back our team! :}
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Beyond a Doubt
18 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
Beyond a doubt this is a well documented, interesting to read, important addition to the history of black baseball in America.
Snyder recreates the era of parallel universes for black and white Americans when contact between the races was rare. All baseball fans were cheated out of seeing the best players compete because some had darker skins than others. The frustations of ballplayers who knew that they could compete but where denied the opportunity is presented against the background of a segregated America.
As a public libray director and an individual baseball book collector I heartily recommend this title.
Snyder recreates the era of parallel universes for black and white Americans when contact between the races was rare. All baseball fans were cheated out of seeing the best players compete because some had darker skins than others. The frustations of ballplayers who knew that they could compete but where denied the opportunity is presented against the background of a segregated America.
As a public libray director and an individual baseball book collector I heartily recommend this title.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
An outstanding historical work
18 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
"Beyond the Shadow of the Senators'' is a must read for any serious student of baseball history. The author put a massive amount of research into this engaging account, of which I knew nothing even though I grew up in Washington not long after these events took place. This is an outstanding work in every regard. I have never met the author and I am not an African-American (not that anybody should care); I am just a fan of baseball and its history. If you are, too: Read this book.
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