Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues

by Leslie A. Heaphy (Editor)

Overview

Though Satchel Paige lived into the early 1980s, much of our information about his life and especially his career is the stuff of anecdote. He is nevertheless a central figure—arguably the central figure—in our reconstructions of Negro Leagues history. This collection of papers from the 9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference focuses on the celebrity of Satchel Paige and the team he is most closely associated with, the Kansas City Monarchs. Accounts of Paige's exploits are scrutinized and the effects of his fame, on both the contemporary perception of black baseball and its depiction in the years since, are discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786430758
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	06/27/2007
Series:	Jerry Malloy Conference Series , #2
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Leslie A. Heaphy is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Stark Campus, in Canton, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Introduction     

PART I: SATCHEL PAIGE
1. Leroy “Satchel” Paige: The Mystique and Milestones of da Man     
2. Satchel Paige, the Baltimore Black Sox and the Politics of Remembrance     
3. Satchel: Ruse and Reality     
4. The Historical Satchel Paige: True Stories and Tales Truly Told     
5. Cracking a Chink in Jim Crow: Satchel Paige and the Integration of Baseball     
6. “They’re All Gonna Jump Like That”: Paige as Personality     
7. Satchel Paige and Hap Dumont: The Dynamic Duo of the National Baseball Congress Tournament     

PART II: THE KANSAS CITY MONARCHS
8. The Monarchs: A Brief History of the Franchise     
9. J.L. Wilkinson: “Only the Stars Come Out at Night”     
10. Tom Baird: A Challenge to the Modern Memory of the Kansas City Monarchs     
11. Jackie Robinson and the 1945 Monarchs     

PART III: THE NEGRO LEAGUES AND INTEGRATION
12. Popularity and Perceptions of the Negro Leagues
13. Jackie Robinson: The Desegregation of Baseball and the Fight for Civil Rights     
14. Integration and the Homestead Grays     
15. “We Can’t Never Lose”: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 30 Years Later     

Appendices     
Bibliography: Black Baseball in Kansas City     
About the Contributors     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

a number of strong essays”—Choice; “filled with plenty of solid historical research and writing, and therefore represents the type of book that students of Black baseball should be looking to produce”—Journal of Sport History.

From the Publisher

"filled with plenty of solid historical research and writing, and therefore represents the type of book that students of Black baseball should be looking to produce"

Journal of Sport History

a number of strong essays

Choice