SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Satchel Paige, Weldy Walker, Negro League Baseball
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Early 19070s: analysis of racism, nationalism, class inequality violence, drug use. Scholarship on sports didn"t emerge until 1970s. Sports taken for granted as natural (naturally made) That it is just what men did. Sport are leisure activities and thus thought to be unimportant. Messages about race are presented through the sports themselves, through commentary, and through advertisements. Baseball color line - term used to explain exclusion of aa from major league baseball. 1862- aa officially barred from the league. 1886-1888- several other aa played in the minor league. 1890 - gentleman"s agreement to ban aa from all white-owned leagues. No explicit rule, but they just all decided together. Black players wouldn"t play in the league for over 50 years. 19th century: several short lived negro leagues formed; barnstormer teams played exhibitions. 1920 to 1946: several other negro leagues formed. They were stilled barred from the mlb.
