Cracks in the Outfield Wall
The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas
By Chris Holaday
280 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 20 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7885-6
Published: April 2024 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7884-9
Published: April 2024 -
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Published: April 2024
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By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game.
About the Author
Chris Holaday is a writer, college teacher, and historian in Durham, North Carolina.
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“Holaday executes [this book] with grace and clarity, employing primary sources—contemporary newspaper accounts, numerous interviews conducted with players and team officials, autobiographies of players who went on to become MLB stars—to substantiate and expand his own research.”—North Carolina Historical Review
"Holaday's exhaustive research and extensive reporting bring to life the compelling stories of players who endured racial taunts and societal snubs to break baseball's barriers in the Carolinas."—Art Chansky, author of Game Changers
"In the first book on baseball integration to both look beyond the majors and focus on the Carolinas, Holaday provides an in-depth account of the individuals who struggled to integrate the sport."—Leslie Heaphy, Kent State University at Stark