Southern League: The Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race

✍ Scribed by Colton, Larry

• Book ID: 108515780
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781455511877

✦ Synopsis

_"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
_Letter from a Birmingham Jail
_ 1963

Anybody who is familiar with the Civil Rights movement knows that 1964 was a pivotal year. And in Birmingham, Alabama - perhaps the epicenter of racial conflict - the Barons amazingly started their season with an integrated team.

Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom, a talented pitcher and Tommie Reynolds, an outfielder - both young black ballplayers with dreams of playing someday in the big leagues, along with Bert Campaneris, a dark-skinned shortstop from Cuba, all found themselves in this simmering cauldron of a minor league town, all playing for Heywood ...