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Author | : Keyshawn Johnson |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1538705478 |
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The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946. THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come. More than a year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, there was another seismic moment in pro sports history. On March 21,1946, former UCLA star running back Kenny Washington—a teammate of Robinson's in college—signed a contract with the Los Angeles Rams. This ended one of the most shameful periods in NFL history, when African-American players were banned from league play. Washington would not be alone in serving as a pioneer for NFL integration. Just months after he joined the Rams, thanks to a concerted effort by influential Los Angeles political and civic leaders, the team signed Woody Strode, who played with both Washington and Robinson at UCLA in one of the most celebrated backfields in college sports history. And that same year, a little-known coach named Paul Brown of the fledgling Cleveland Browns signed running back Marion Motley and defensive lineman Bill Willis, thereby integrating a startup league that would eventually merge with the NFL. THE FORGOTTEN FIRST tells the story of one of the most significant cultural shifts in pro football history, as four men opened the door to opportunity and changed the sport forever.
Author | : Robert Gardner |
Publisher | : Walker & Company |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780802782489 |
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Traces the history of the Negro leagues that evolved due to segregation in professional baseball and the experiences of black players from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
Author | : Tony Salin |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9780809226030 |
Download Baseball's Forgotten Heroes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.
Author | : Sandra Rim Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download No Longer the "forgotten Player" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jeremy Beer |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1496224965 |
Download Oscar Charleston Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
Author | : James Hendicott |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 024417363X |
Download CONIFA: Football for the Forgotten Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is not a book about football. Well, it is, in a sense, but it's also a book about overcoming the odds. About being rejected from the sporting mainstream, but fighting back. About training for an international tournament with only a single ball. It's about representing one country, but being forced to live your life in another. About finding sporting representation as a rank outsider; overcoming political superpowers to find a place. It's about scrambling a team together in a few weeks to represent millions of people, or fronting a multi-continental organization on a near-bankrupt shoestring because it's that important to your indigenous reindeer-herding Scandinavian ethnic minority that they have their own global, international outlet. Those last two paragraphs probably sound like hyperbole. I couldn't quite believe it either, but every word of them is real. Follow me on a journey down a footballing rabbit hole, where sport and politics mingle in glorious, positive harmony. This is CONIFA
Author | : Craig Wallace |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0557045568 |
Download The Forgotten Summit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Rob Heinsoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dungeons and Dragons (Game) |
ISBN | : 9780786949298 |
Download Forgotten Realms Player's Guide Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The complete guide for building Forgotten Realms characters. This guide presents this changed world from the point of view of the adventurers exploring it. This product includes everything a player needs to create his character for a D&D campaign in the Forgotten Realms setting.
Author | : Dan Daly |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803244606 |
Download The National Forgotten League Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first fifty years of America’s most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the “complete story” of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that “complete story” has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears’ Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a game in 1938 because of injuries? These are just a few of the little-known facts Dan Daly unearths in recounting the untold history of pro football in its first half century. These decades were also full of ideas and experimentation, such as the invention of the modern T formation that revolutionized offense, unlimited player substitution, and soccer-style kicking, as well as the emergence of televised pro football as prime-time entertainment. Relying on obscure sources, original interviews, old game films and statistical databases, Daly’s extensive research and engaging stories bring the NFL’s formative years—and pro football’s folk roots—to life.
Author | : Lawrence D. Hogan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-01-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download The Forgotten History of African American Baseball Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond. For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten. This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.