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Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the Negro Leagues Owner and Hall of Famer
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Veröffentlichung: |
Januar 2020
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Genre: |
Ratgeber |
ISBN: |
9781476663944 |
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9781476663944 |
Verlag: |
McFarland and Company, Inc. |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 17 mm |
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468 gr |
Seiten: |
286 |
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Paperback |
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¿ Cumberland Posey began his career in 1911 playing outfield for the Homestead Grays, a local black team in his Pennsylvania hometown. He soon became the squad's driving force as they dominated semi-pro ball in the Pittsburgh area. By the late 1930s the Grays were at the top of the Negro Leagues with nine straight pennant wins.
Posey was also a League officer; he served 13 years as the first black member of the Homestead school board; and he wrote an outspoken sports column for the African American weekly, the Pittsburgh Courier. He was regarded as one of the best black basketball players in the East; he was the organizer of a team that held the consensus national black championship five years running. Ten years after his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame--one of only two athletes to be honored by two pro sports halls. |
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