02033cam a2200325 4500 101511462 TxAuBib 20100913120000.0 091103s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009044286 9780896727014 $29.95 0896727017 $29.95 (OCoLC)463854777 DLC DLC C#P BWX YDXCP CDX FDA TTS TxAuBib Fink, Rob, (Robert.) Playing in shadows : Texas and Negro league baseball / Rob Fink ; foreword by Cary D. Wintz. Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, 2010. xxii, 165 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Sport in the American West Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-154) and index. Life in the shadows -- The semiprofessional game : the roots of Black baseball -- Andrew "Rube" Foster : the father of the Negro Leagues -- Smokey Joe, Biz, and the Devil : Black Texans who shaped the game -- The Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana League : professional Black baseball comes to Texas -- The beginning of the end : the decline of the semiprofessional game -- The Houston Eagles and the end of Negro League baseball -- The lasting legacy -- Appendix: Negro League veterans who played in Texas. "Offers the first book-length history of the Texas Negro Leagues and the impact African American Texans had on baseball during the first half of the twentieth century. Previously untold historical narrative contributes to sport history studies while asserting Texas's role in the formation, growth, and decline of African American baseball"--Provided by publisher. 20101217. Negro Leagues Texas History. Baseball Texas History. Baseball players Texas History. African American baseball players Texas History. Sport in the American West. TXMML