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The American Indian integration of baseball / Jeffrey Powers-Beck ; with a foreword by Joseph B. Oxendine.

By: Publication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0803237456 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.357/64/08997 22
LOC classification:
  • GV867.64 .P69 2004
Contents:
"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.

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.

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