Pumpsie & Progress : The Red Sox, Race, and Redemption (9781579401757)



Built around a biographical essay on the life and career of Pumpsie Green, the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last major-league baseball team to integrate, Pumpsie & Progress offers essays from a half-dozen authors on matters ranging from Jackie Robinson to the Red Sox of today. Contributing authors include George Mitrovich, David Muchnick and Frances Muchnick Goldstein, David Nevard and David Marasco, Bill Nowlin, Glenn Stout, and Chris Wertz.


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  • Paperback | 176 pages
  • 152 x 229 x 10mm | 245g
  • English
  • Illustrations, black and white
  • 1579401759
  • 9781579401757


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