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Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Francis Sockalexis
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- “Good used book from Amazon”
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Book
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- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Baseball
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- IsTextBook
- No
- Vintage
- No
- California Prop 65 Warning
- N/A book
- Personalize
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- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Realism
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
1579545874
ISBN-13
9781579545871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2393021
Product Key Features
Book Title
Indian Summer : The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / General, Sports
Publication Year
2003
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-153791
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game." -- Bill Madden, baseball columnist for the New York Daily News and co-author of Zim: A Baseball Life "Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library." -- Grace Thorpe, Native American activist and daughter of Jim Thorpe, "A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game."--Bill Madden, baseball columnist for the New York Daily News and co-author of Zim: A Baseball Life "Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library."--Grace Thorpe, Native American activist and daughter of Jim Thorpe, Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library., "A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game."--Bill Madden, baseball columnist for theNew York Daily Newsand co-author ofZim: A Baseball Life "Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library."--Grace Thorpe, Native American activist and daughter of Jim Thorpe, A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game.
Dewey Decimal
796.357/092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The Indian wars were over, and the Indians had lost. But on the green fields of our national pastime, this Indian stood tall ... America, as always, was in the throes of change. Segregation was becoming law down South with the passage of Jim Crow. West of the Mississippi, the slaughters at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee still stung recent memory. At the same time, in 1897, the name Sockalexis resounded in barrooms and backrooms, in the lurid headlines of the popular press, and in the bleachers of the legendary ballparks in Baltimore and Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati, New York and St. Louis. More than a century ago, on a remote reservation in the wilds of Maine, a "natural" athletic talent was born who would change the face of baseball-- literally. The Indian, as he was labeled by friend and foe alike, caused a commotion in city after city as rowdy fans, hard-drinking players, and corrupt team owners all wanted a piece of the first Native American to play in the Majors. For one sensational season he was the toast of Cleveland and the National League, his appeal so strong that there's little doubt he inspired the name his old club carries today. This is the story of Louis Francis Sockalexis, grandson of a Penobscot chief, who endured a firestorm of publicity while blazing a trail for such sports heroes as Jim Thorpe and Jackie Robinson. Unfortunately, Sockalexis also followed the well-traveled path of stars before and since who have sealed their own fate with alcohol and other temptations. And yet, as rendered by Brian McDonald, the forgotten story of Sockalexis reveals a most memorable figure from baseball's-- and America's-- storied past., It is our national pastime, a sport as American as apple pie. Yet until now no one has told the story of the Native American who first played it, just 7 years after Wounded Knee and half a century before Jackie Robinson broke the league's color barrier. His name was Louis Francis Sockalexis, grandson of a Penobscot chief. The story goes that he developed his amazing arm throwing rocks across a lake near his home in Old Town, Maine. In 1897, he was signed by the team then known as the Cleveland Spiders and was considered one of the finest 'natural athletes' ever seen in the game until alcohol-and perhaps the mix of fame and racist hatred from some fans-took its toll. Years later, after his near anonymous death, the team would change its name to the Cleveland Indians in his honor. McDonald's vivid writing brings to life the raucous stadiums from the turn of the century, filled with rowdy fans, hard-drinking players, and corrupt team owners with ties to organized crime.
LC Classification Number
GV865.S588M33 2003
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