J. L. Wilkinson and the Kansas City Monarchs
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Author | : William A. Young |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-11-19 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476626146 |
Baseball pioneer J. L. Wilkinson (1878-1964) was the owner and founder, in 1920, of the famed Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues. The only white owner in the Negro National League (NNL), Wilkinson earned a reputation for treating players with fairness and respect. He began his career in Iowa as a player, later organizing a traveling women's team in 1908 and the multiracial All-Nations club in 1912. He led the Monarchs to two Negro Leagues World Series championships and numerous pennants in the NNL and the Negro American League. During the Depression he developed an ingenious portable lighting system for night games, credited with saving black baseball. He resurrected the career of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige in 1938 and in 1945 signed a rookie named Jackie Robinson to the Monarchs. Wilkinson was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, joining 14 Monarchs players.
Author | : Janet Bruce |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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An illustrated study of the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the top teams in the Negro National League, which served as a training ground for Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, and over twenty other players who were eventually sent to the major leagues.
Author | : William A. Young |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476662991 |
Baseball pioneer J. L. Wilkinson (1878-1964) was the owner and founder, in 1920, of the famed Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues. The only white owner in the Negro National League (NNL), Wilkinson earned a reputation for treating players with fairness and respect. He began his career in Iowa as a player, later organizing a traveling women's team in 1908 and the multiracial All-Nations club in 1912. He led the Monarchs to two Negro Leagues World Series championships and numerous pennants in the NNL and the Negro American League. During the Depression he developed an ingenious portable lighting system for night games, credited with saving black baseball. He resurrected the career of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige in 1938 and in 1945 signed a rookie named Jackie Robinson to the Monarchs. Wilkinson was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, joining 14 Monarchs players.
Author | : Janet L. Bruce |
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Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African American athletes |
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Author | : Frederick C. Bush |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781970159530 |
Biographies of players on the 1942 champion Kansas City Monarchs including Satchel Paige and Buck O'Neil, and feature articles on the 1942 Negro League World Series and more.
Author | : Leslie A. Heaphy |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007-06-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Nothing evokes the glory days of Negro Leagues' baseball like the name of star pitcher Satchel Paige. This collection of essays and papers, based on the 9th annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, focuses on Paige and on the Kansas City Monarchs, the team he led to the Negro Leagues' World Series in 1942 and 1946.
Author | : Ralph J. Christian |
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Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2000 |
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This paper looks at the life and baseball career of J.L. Wilkinson before he became the owner of the Kansas City Monarchs.
Author | : Steven R. Hoffbeck |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873515177 |
Swinging for the Fences tells the great stories of baseball's past, from establishment of the color line and the early formation of the barnstorming teams to dazzling hits by black heroes that led the Twins to victory over the Cardinals in 1987. Each chapter focuses on one key player and gives readers an intimate look at the national pastime as it has evolved over the last century. These are stories of the bonds that formed between players, of legendary moments in baseball's past, and of real people whose love of the game kept them playing against tough odds. Featured here are Hall of Famers like Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, and Kirby Puckett and great players like Walter Ball, John Wesley Donaldson, and Bud Fowler, who, because of their race, never made the stats books.
Author | : Ron Keurajian |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476634181 |
Richly illustrated with nearly 1,000 examples of both autographs and forgeries, this new and expanded edition includes signature studies of all Hall of Famers from the 19th century to the present. Collectors can compare signatures to the examples to determine the genuineness of autographs. Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox are explored in depth, along with Roger Maris, Gil Hodges and the top 50 non–Hall of Fame autographs. A new price guide examines values of various signed mediums. A market population grid lists rare and seldom seen signatures.