Shut Out : A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
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| Title: | Shut Out : A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston |
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| Description: | Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed. |
| Authors: | Howard Bryant |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Boston Red Sox (Baseball team), Baseball--History--20th century.--Massachuse, Discrimination in sports--Massachusetts--Bosto |
| Categories: | SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History, HISTORY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed. |
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| ISBN: | 9780415927796 9781135297763 9781135297831 9780203950906 |
