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Lädt ... Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseballvon Lawrence D. Hogan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I must confess that I never finished this book. It was so poorly put together, that I couldn't finish it. From the first page, I thought I had jumped into the book in the middle somewhere. I turned it over to my husband (an avid baseball fan), thinking perhaps it was my lack of understanding of the game that was creating problems, but he had a rough time with it too. The subject matter is excellent, and I can only hope that the final publication of the book took care of the continuity problems that I encountered. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I didn't particularly like this book because it was overwhelmed with detail. It was not organized in a way that I found interesting. I'm not a baseball purist and perhaps the detail appeals to most people who would read this book, but not me. It's unfortunate that so many teams were named Giants, too, because that blurred things quite a bit for me. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Baseball has a lot of history behind it, and as a relatively new fan of the game I'm reminded every time I pick up a book about just how much I don't know about it.This book was helpful in filling in some of the gaps for an era and a league for which a lot of people could probably use some gaps filled. While general baseball coverage will introduce most casual fans to the headliners of the Negro Leagues, this book goes beyond biographies of the top stars to the more nuts-and-bolts mechanics of the leagues they played in and how they operated parallel to the segregated major and minor leagues. It's as much a story about black businesses and black communities as about black baseball. Because it is trying to cover so much ground, it does jump around quite a bit and as some others have mentioned the tone is a bit boostery. Because I had an advance reader's copy the pictures and statistical indexes were not complete. However, it looks like the finished version will be a useful introduction to a story that every baseball fan should be introduced to. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Drawing on years of research, Shades of Glory traces the history of black baseball from the 19th century to the first great teams, such as the Cuban Giants, and on to the era of the vibrant barnstorming teams from the East Coast, Chicago, and Cuba. The unparalleled Rube Foster started the first Negro League in 1920, with such dominant teams as the Chicago American Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs. Pittsburgh soon produced two of the greatest teams of all time, the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, featuring such stars as Satchel Paige, John Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and many more. Their superb brand of baseball rivaled the best of the major leagues until the historic signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Shades of Glory chronicles a bygone era of black baseball and the stars who were shadowed by racial prejudice, but now shine forth in all their sparkling brilliance. [from publisher description]. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Others have commented that the book "jumped around". This may be explained by the fact that this book is the distillation of a much larger 800-page history written by teams of historians and sportswriters. ( )