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Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line
Title:
Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line
Author:
Dunkel, Tom.
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9780802120120
Publication Information:
New York : Atlantic Monthly, c2013
Subject Term:
Racism in sports -- United States -- History.

Minor league baseball -- United States.

Baseball -- United States -- History.

Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
Summary:
Dunkel traces the rise of a Bismarck integrated squad and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season, and the first National Semi-Pro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas--a decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues!