Description: Integrating Pittsburgh Sports, Pennsylvania, Sports, Paperback Steel City Sports as a Catalyst for Change Though Pittsburgh athletics had many of the same barriers to equality and racial discrimination as the rest of the nation for far too long, the city has celebrated some of the most important moments in the integration of sports in the country. Pittsburgh was the only city with two Negro League teams, fielding such future Hall of Famers as Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston and Satchel Paige. Local high school basketball stars Chuck Cooper, Bill Nunn, Jr., Dick Ricketts, Maurice Stokes, and Jack Twyman held integrated pick-up games at local parks such as Mellon Park in Shadyside in the 1950s. In college football, Connellsville native Jimmy Joe Robinson became the first African American player on Pitt's football team in 1945 as the school continued to integrate its squad ahead of federal desegregation. The Association of Gentleman Pittsburgh Journalists present the compelling, heartbreaking and courageous history of how Pittsburgh's integration of sport helped lead the nation.
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467152594
Book Title: Integrating Pittsburgh Sports
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 6in
Author: David Finoli
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Basketball, Football
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Sports & Recreation, History
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
