Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson Hairston

Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780813198880,0813198887,9780813198903, 0813198909

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0813198909
• ISBN 13: 9780813198903
• Author: Dorian Hairston
  

Joshua “Josh” Gibson (1911–1947) is a baseball legend—one of the greatest power hitters in the Negro Leagues, and in all of baseball history. At the height of his career, this trailblazing athlete suffered grueling physical ailments, lost his young wife who died giving birth to their twins, and endured years of Jim Crow–era segregation and discrimination—all the while breaking records on the ball field.

Dorian Hairston’s debut poetry collection explores the Black American experience through the lens of Gibson’s life and seventeen-year baseball career, which culminated in his posthumous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Hairston brilliantly reconstructs the personas of Gibson and others in his orbit whose encounters with white supremacy interweave with the inevitability of losing loved ones. By alternating between the perspectives of Gibson, members of his family, and contemporary Black baseball players, Hairston captures the complexity and the pain of living under the oppressive weight of grief and racial discrimination.

Table contents:

1. Bottom of the First: 0–0
2. Manifesto for Black Baseball Players
3. Smuggling Strength
4. Naming
5. Home Run #1
6. Night Visions
7. Brooklyn
8. Uncovered
9. Dear Diary
10. Papa Tells the Truth
11. Premature
12. Bottom of the Fourth: 1–0 Grays
13. The Original Dodgers
14. Seen It Coming (1951)
15. Pregame Cut
16. West Field
17. Can’t Compete
18. Trash Talk
19. Bat Considers Considering a Strike
20. Home Run #270
21. Dear Mama
22. Your Enough Ain’t Enough
23. Not Fit for Service
24. Pregame Prayer
25. Top of the Fifth: 2–2
26. Telegram to Pittsburgh Pirates
27. Gator Belt
28. Outfield Cot
29. Worship
30. Trucutu
31. Perejil
32. The Base Watch
33. Winter Ball
34. Bottom of the Sixth: 3–2 Crawfords
35. Resurrection
36. The Magician
37. Battle of the Greatest
38. Late-Night Ritual
39. The Bats Speak
40. Deep Breath
41. Bottom of the Ninth: 3–2 Crawfords
42. Living Will
43. Youth Fountain
44. My First Slump
45. Mama and Her Daughter
46. Let Us Be
47. Home Run #800 and Something
48. Extra Innings
49. Cooperstown
50. Where We Go
51. The Walk Off

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