This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story. It is also a social history of the nation. Using the statistics of the past -- someknown and hidden, others unknown and only recently ferreted out -- Ashe puts the African-American baseball player back into the game. This volume, devoted completely to the African-American's participation in baseball, tells the stories and records of club, college and professional players. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.
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Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, and died in New York City on February 6, 1993. In his twenty-year tennis career Ashe won some of the most coveted singles championship games; Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the World Cup Team Finals. He was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team from 1963 to 1970, and in 1975, 1976, and 1978; as its captain, he led the team to victories in 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the U.S. World Cup Team from 1970 to 1976, and in 1979.
On April 16, 1980, after quadruple bypass surgury, Arthur Ashe retired from professional tennis. He became National Campaign Chairman for the American Heart Association and the only nonmedical member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.
He contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation in 1983. Upon discovering this, Ashe exhibited his perennial quality of action without acrimony and founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, He succumbed to the disease in February 1993.
Ashe was married to professional photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, the author of Viewifnders: Black Women Photographers. They lived in New York City with their daughter, Camera.
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By dan
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This covers a great deal of black heroes in sports from Joe Louis to Jesse Owens. The book really takes you into the struggle and gives you a great deal of insight into American History.
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Arthur Ashe made many fine contributions to America, but this isn't one of them. Not up to the standard set by the other books in the series.
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- Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams by Robert Peterson on page 20, page 39, and page 40
- I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson on page 40, and page 78
- Kansas City Royals (Baseball Today Series) by Mollie Martin on page 65, and page 66
- Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe in Back Cover
- Washington, D.C by Gerald on page 79
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- Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America by Patrick B. Miller on page 288, and Index
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