Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America. In Out of Left Field , Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Deftly written and meticulously researched, this book sheds new light on the intersection of race, religion, and ...
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Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America. In Out of Left Field , Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Deftly written and meticulously researched, this book sheds new light on the intersection of race, religion, and sports in America.
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