The Best Pitcher in Baseball : : The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant /

The Best Pitcher in Baseball : : The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant / / Robert Charles Cottrell.

When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Cottrell, Robert Charles,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. The Best Pitcher in the Country
  • TWO. At the Top of His Game
  • THREE. A Return to the Midwest
  • FOUR. The Leland Giants
  • FIVE. The Chicago American Giants and the Making of a Black Baseball Dynasty
  • SIX. Another Championship
  • SEVEN. The Dynasty Is Interrupted
  • EIGHT. Back on Top in Wartime
  • NINE. Rube Ball
  • TEN. Black Baseball and the Segregated Community
  • ELEVEN. Organizing Black Baseball
  • TWELVE. Czar of Black Baseball
  • THIRTEEN. Rube Foster’s Legacy
  • FOURTEEN. The Drive to Cooperstown
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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