Under Jackie's Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind

Under Jackie's Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left BehindUnder Jackies Shadow is a portal to the hidden world of Minor League baseball in the era just after Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. What was it like to be Black and playing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1965, or Memphis, Tennessee, in 1973? What was it like to play for white coaches and scouting directors from the Jim Crow South who cut their professional teeth in the segregated game before Jackie Robinson ushered in the

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