Book Talk: "Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas"

Name: Book Talk: "Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas"
Start: 2024-07-13T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-13T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 3500 Shamrock Dr, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28215

Schedule

Sat Jul 13 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3500 Shamrock Dr, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28215 | Charlotte, NC

The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Join the Charlotte Museum of History for a conversation and book signing with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.