Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line Rutter Emily Ruth Wydawca: University Press of Mississippi Data wydania: 2018 ISBN: 9781496817129 Liczba stron: 192 Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams, Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history.