Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson 1st Edition

Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson 1st Editon – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780813198897, 0813198895

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 9780813198897
• ISBN-13: 0813198895
• Author: Dorian Hairston

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 Manifesto for Black Baseball Players Smuggling Strength Naming Homerun #1 Night Visions Brooklyn Uncovered Dear Diary Papa Tells the Truth Premature

2. Bottom of the Fourth: 1-0 Grays The Original Dodgers Seen It Coming (1951) Pregame Cut West Field Can’t Compete Trash Talk Bat Considers Considering a Strike Homerun #270 Dear Mama Your Enough Ain’t Enough Not Fit for Service Pregame Prayer

3. Top of the Fifth: 2-2 Telegram to Pittsburg Pirates Gator Belt Outfield Cot Worship Trucutu Perejil The Base Watch Winter Ball

4. Bottom of the Sixth: 3-2 Crawfords Resurrection The Magician Battle of the Greatest Late Night Ritual The Bats Speak Deep Breath

5. Bottom of the Ninth: 3-2 Crawfords Living Will Youth Fountain My First Slump Mamma and Her Daughter Let Us Be Home Run #800 and Something

6. Extra Innings Cooperstown Where We Go The Walk Off

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