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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi

Zminda, Don

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On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. The future Hall of Famers began their Chicago baseball careers against the backdrop of a 1951 race riot in suburban Cicero, where a white mob abetted by local police attacked a building that had rented to Black tenants.

Don Zminda's account looks at these interconnected events alongside the little-known chronicle of Chicago's slow track to integrating major league baseball. By the early 1950s, the Cubs and White Sox organizations had become rich in Black and Afro-Latino stars and talented prospects. Unlike Miñoso and Banks, however, most of these minor leaguers never advanced to the majors or, if they did, it was for little more than a cup of coffee. Zminda also profiles these players, from Charles Pope, the Cubs' first Black signee, to larger-than-life fireballer Blood Burns.

Essential and dramatic, Justice Batted Last uses the lives and careers of two Chicago legends to tell a story of integration on and off the diamond.

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3 FIELDS BOOKS

Bisac Major Subject

Sports & Recreation

Binding Type

Paperback

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Length

10.45 Inches

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EAN

Width

4.14 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

Height

0.82 Inches

ISBN 10

0252088492

Weight

0.96 Pounds

Book EAN

9780252088490

Target Audiance

Adults

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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi