Conspiracy of Silence
Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Chapter 6: Major League Managers and Ballplayers Call for End of Color Line
On the morning of Sunday, February 19, 1939, Wendell Smith, the assistant sports editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, sat down with National League president Ford Frick in the lobby of the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. If there was indeed a formal policy...

Chapter 10: "Get Those Niggers Off the Field"
Shortly after Joe Bostic left his home in Harlem at 7:30 a.m. on April 6, he discovered he had a flat tire. He had the tire patched, filled the car with gas, and called Terris McDuffie and Dave “Showboat” Thomas to let them know he was running...
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Chapter 12: "I Never Want to Take Another Trip Like This One"
Before sportswriters left en masse for spring training, the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association held its twenty-third annual meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on February 3. The all-white crowd included twelve hundred journalists...
E-ISBN-13: 9780803240209
E-ISBN-10: 0803240201
Print-ISBN-13: 9780803210769
Page Count: 408
Publication Year: 2012
OCLC Number: 792742315
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