The American Indian integration of baseball /
Powers-Beck, Jeffrey P., 1964-
The American Indian integration of baseball / Jeffrey Powers-Beck ; with a foreword by Joseph B. Oxendine. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. - xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
"Chief"--the American Indian integration of baseball -- Carlisle Indian Industrial School baseball -- The Nebraska Indians baseball team -- Bender, Meyers, and Thorpe in the big leagues -- The many trails of Louis Leroy -- George Howard Johnson's career in professional baseball -- The baseball legend of Moses Yellow Horse -- Epilogue: anti-Indian caricature in major league baseball.
0803237456 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2004007245
Baseball--Social aspects--History.--United States
Indian baseball players--History.--United States
Discrimination in sports--United States.
Indians of North America--Social conditions.
GV867.64 / .P69 2004
796.357/64/08997
The American Indian integration of baseball / Jeffrey Powers-Beck ; with a foreword by Joseph B. Oxendine. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. - xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
"Chief"--the American Indian integration of baseball -- Carlisle Indian Industrial School baseball -- The Nebraska Indians baseball team -- Bender, Meyers, and Thorpe in the big leagues -- The many trails of Louis Leroy -- George Howard Johnson's career in professional baseball -- The baseball legend of Moses Yellow Horse -- Epilogue: anti-Indian caricature in major league baseball.
0803237456 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2004007245
Baseball--Social aspects--History.--United States
Indian baseball players--History.--United States
Discrimination in sports--United States.
Indians of North America--Social conditions.
GV867.64 / .P69 2004
796.357/64/08997