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The student, as I remember, had what could only be described as a wry smile on his face when he asked the question. He already knew the answer. “Professor Bass, who was the last team to integrate?”
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Quoted in Howard Bryant, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (New York: Routledge, 2002), 29.
Glenn Stout, “When the Yankees Nearly Moved to Boston,” ESPN.com, July 18, 2002, accessed on July 6, 2004. For a detailed explanation as to how Babe Ruth ended up in New York, see Stout, Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002).
For the impact of the Curse through the decades in Boston, see Dan Shaughnessy, The Curse of the Bambino (New York: Penguin Books, 2000).
See Toby Miller, Sportsex (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002).
Another collection in this vein is John Bloom and Michael Willard, Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2002).
See Amy Bass, Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
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Bass, A. (2005). Introduction. In: Bass, A. (eds) In the Game. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980458_1
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