Both a biography of Wilber "Bullet" Rogan and a history of his great Kansas City Monarchs teams, 1920-1938, this detailed work pays tribute to a man considered by some to be baseball's greatest all-around player. During his career, the Monarchs won two Negro League World Series and five pennants, in addition to launching the careers of several outstanding players and conducting many barnstorming tours. The author, who interviewed many former players, covers Rogan's Hall of Fame career in-depth and brings to light one of baseball's greatest but often forgotten talents.
This book follows Dizzy and Daffy Dean’s All-Stars as they barnstormed across the country in 1934, taking the field against the greatest teams in the Negro Leagues. It shows the glory of the games as well as the disingenuous journalistic tactics that proliferated during the tour with an introspective look at its impact on race relations. In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’ victory over the Detroit Tigers in Game Seven, Dizzy and Daffy went on a fourteen game barnstorming tour against the best African-American baseball players in the country. The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America’s National Pastime examines for the first time the full barnstorming series in its original and uncensored splendor. Phil S. Dixon profiles not only the men who were part of the Deans’ All-Star teams but also the men who played against them, including some of baseball’s most monumental African-American players. Dixon highlights how the contributions during the tour of Negro League stars such as Satchel Paige, Chet Brewer, Charlie Beverly, and Andy Cooper were glossed over by sports writers of the day and grants them their rightful due in this significant slice of sports history. The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour gives careful consideration to the social implications of the tour and the media’s biased coverage of the games, providing a unique window for viewing racism in American sports history. It is more than a baseball story—it is an American story.
Everyone is excited for Punxsatawney Phil's big day. . . except for him. It's the night before Groundhog Day, and Phil can't sleep. His family's voices fill his head: It's a family tradition You'll make us so proud We're all counting on you, you, you Making pancakes usually sets Phil's mind at ease, but before he can finish making this batch his little sister, Marla, joins him in the kitchen. She can't wait for his big day and insists on helping him practice. She even teaches him a poem to help him keep things straight. But when Phil's big (scary) day arrives, his nerves take over and his mind goes blank. What had Marla said? If you see your shadow does it mean an early spring? Or is that if you don't see your shadow? His worries are all coming true until he has an idea that saves the day. In her picture book Phil's Big Day, Liza Woodruff warmly and reassuringly addresses the common but consuming feelings anxiety brings up, and suggests coping mechanisms useful for grown-ups and kids alike. Readers who struggle to have fun in the face of their fears will resonate with Phil's restless thoughts and find joy as Phil takes on his challenges with a supportive sister at his side.
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Phil's Jazz And All That Freedom Music puts a presence on the days of the 1950s-1970 in vibrant neighbourhoods around Cape Town, South Africa . It brings to the fore bated breath memories between families and friends across the dreaded 'color lines' of South Africa's apartheid past. It revisits a time and place when music played and goes on to form such a crucial role in helping folks stay sane under the pressures of daily living. From a treasury of human courage, strength, and determination to overcome near insurmountable odds, such wisdoms and joys could serve the present and future generations well, we always hope. Excerpts: One For The Beach Road "Did you just hear him play Stardust on Jazzland?" As though we'd just lost touch with the show on the radio, Don Warners' mellifluous rafts sailed across the room to the phone all the way from Halifax. It drove us into blue green paroxysms. Ralph in Toronto then later in Vancouver, and me in Montreal we'd almost reached a point of screaming: "incredibly out of this world ". This was followed at night with Katie Malloch's night Jazzbeat. O, the rapture F r Elise was the bar; that stuck on you. Vernell deftly sauntered into The Muppet's Theme, your living room became a studio of pride. Denzil's beautiful pearly teeth glittered through the set. Verna scatted with Sarah Vaughan. .................................. Basil Moses On Bass Your honey-brown fine wooden music chamber spread luminescence. Skyward visions keyed our flights to higher ground. Our beliefs became writ large in your steeling, strutting, strumming, supreme stomp for freedom, utter joy and aesthetics. Touch, tempo, tone, tethered times through tempest. Tenderness overtook tremor and troubled rivers.
