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Mar 22, 2009 ... "You must always have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. Your self-confidence must be maintained. Always have an alibi. But keep it to yourself. That's where it belongs." CHRISTY MATHEWSON "No game in the world is as tidy and ...
A case of cultural forgetting: black newspapers' presentation of black baseball in 1932.
Mar 22, 2009; ... When Negro National League officials agreed to close operations for 1932 due to the hard realities of the Great Depression, the usually minor Negro Southern League and the newly-created East-West Colored League became black baseball's "major leagues." (1) Disillusionment with the Negro ...
"A mirthful spectacle": race, blackface minstrelsy, and base ball, 1874-1888.
Mar 22, 2009; ... To sum up the [Blue Stocking vs. Pink Stocking] game in general, it need only be said that, saving the single item of color it was like other well-played games. One peculiarity, however, was noticeable, whether accidental or usual we don't know. It consisted in an irresistible propensity ...
Whatever happened to the marvelous importance of the unimportant? A plea for putting today's baseball and all-sports Mania in proper perspective.(ARTICLES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Keynote Speech to the Fifteenth Annual NINE Spring Training Conference, March 15, 2008 I was moved when one of Bill Kirwin's last acts as NINE conference organizer was to ask me to deliver this year's keynote address. We have heard so much about Bill this week, and I for one can ...
Looking bad on paper, worse on film: portrayals of sports journalists in three classic baseball films.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Where there is baseball, there are sports journalists--a relationship that has evolved as the media and the sport have evolved. In some periods (the 1920s and 1930s, for example), baseball teams and local sports journalists worked together to promote the home team and its games. In other ...