The Black Ball

The Black Ball
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241339235

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'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series,with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

The Black Ball

The Black Ball
Author: Simon Lovell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781725961289

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Imagine if you could reach new levels of happiness and joy; releasing years of shame, guilt and stress from your life. Are you ready for a spiritual awakening and to start fully living life? You may be holding onto a Black Ball. After childhood bullying, debt, alcohol, gambling and drugs, business mentor Simon Lovell went on a huge journey into self-help and personal transformation, but still found himself lost after invested hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was living a double life. Finally, in 2018 he experienced a profound spiritual awakening that was captured live on Facebook, releasing 30 years of shame from a secret that he was holding deep inside. This was his 'Black Ball'. It was raw, emotional and impactful to everyone watching. Suicide is both a major mental health and national public health issue around the globe with rates rising sharply. A person dies every 40 seconds by suicide and up to 25 times as many again make an attempt to take their life. The Black Ball is Simon's journey, as well as a series of courageous stories from people around the world who have released their shame and guilt and are living happier lives through the groundbreaking Black Ball process. Simon also reveals a powerful four step process to letting go and living your best life possible. Simon writes, "It was finally when I was willing to let go of the masks I was wearing and stop playing the character of Simon Lovell that everything changed. Now I understand personal transformation at a much deeper level because I've found 'home', the real Simon Lovell. Now it's my mission to help others release their Black Ball and for them to be 100% okay with the story of their life. Are you ready to reach huge levels of happiness? This book is for anyone who is currently feeling helpless, lost and wants to boost their self-esteem with a motivational message as well as simple action steps to change. It's also for those who are currently on their personal transformation and self-help journey and want to boost their spiritual growth.

Black Ball 10

Black Ball 10
Author: Leslie A. Heaphy
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476663882

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Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.

Black Ball and the Boardwalk

Black Ball and the Boardwalk
Author: James E. Overmyer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476617082

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The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach--an Atlantic City politician running for mayor--as a way to keep his name before the city's black community. The Giants were immediately successful, and soon played the best semi-professional teams in their region, as well as the top black teams from the East and Midwest. They entered the first Negro league on the East Coast in 1923, and won the league championship twice before the decade ended. This book chronicles the Giants' pivotal role in the development of black baseball in Prohibition Era Atlantic City, and the careers of the men who made it possible.

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power
Author: Jared A. Ball
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030423557

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This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and this book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of economics. In sum, while “buying power” is indeed an economic and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it has a specific application to Black America.

Blackball Stars

Blackball Stars
Author: John Holway
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780881847642

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For 60 years professional baseball was a segregated sport. Even today, 44 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, most of the great black players of the Negro Leagues are forgotten or ignored. With this book, Holway sets out to rectify that. Features 25 tales of outstanding players.

Only the Ball was White

Only the Ball was White
Author: Robert Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195076370

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Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

Party of the Century

Party of the Century
Author: Deborah Davis
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0470893575

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In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, and more. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings of the guests, this portrait of revelry at the height of the swirling, swinging sixties is a must for anyone interested in American popular culture and the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and talented.

Blackballed

Blackballed
Author: Darryl Pinckney
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1590178130

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Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Drawing on the work of scholars, the memoirs of civil rights workers, and the speeches and writings of black leaders like Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young and John Lewis, Pinckney traces the disagreements among blacks about the best strategies for achieving equality in American society as well as the ways in which they gradually came to create the Democratic voting bloc that contributed to the election of the first black president. Interspersed through the narrative are Pinckney’s own memories of growing up during the civil rights era and the reactions of his parents to the changes taking place in American society. He concludes with an examination of ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress the black vote, with particular attention to the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also included here is Pinckney’s essay “What Black Means Now,” on the history of the black middle class, stereotypes about blacks and crime, and contemporary debates about “post-blackness.”

The Best Season - the First Ninety Games

The Best Season - the First Ninety Games
Author: Bob May
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-06
Genre: African American baseball players
ISBN: 1457512211

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A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.