1954 The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever

1954,A triumphant season for black ballplayers and the countryaward-winning New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season, drawn largely from exclusive recent interviews with the major players themselves, including Willie Mays and Larry Doby as well as New York baseball legends from that era: Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford of the Yankees, Monte Irvin of the Giants, and Carl Erskine of the Dodgers. 1954 transports readers across the baseball landscape of the time as future superstars such as Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and others entered the leagues and continued to integrate the sport. Weaving together the narrative of one of baseball's greatest seasons wit the racially charged events of that year,the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools, 1954 demonstrates how our national pastime was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance.

ISBN:	9780306823695
Publisher:	Little, Brown
Imprint:	Da Capo Press
Published date:	10 Mar 2015
DEWEY:	796.35764097309045
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Weight:	394g
Height:	316mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	22mm

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