{"id":1732,"date":"2014-01-19T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2014-01-19T07:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:36:47","slug":"1954-a-new-book-by-bill-madden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"1954 A NEW BOOK BY BILL MADDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1954.jpg\" alt=\"1954\" width=\"230\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1954.jpg 230w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1954-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n1954: THE YEAR WILLIE MAYS AND THE FIRST GENERATION OF BLACK SUPERSTARS CHANGED MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FOREVER<br \/>\nNew book by Bill Madden due on Willie Mays&#8217; birthday.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"584\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_HaE7yMkLzOjxSc&#038;asin=0306823322&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how\u2014and, in practice, when\u2014did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball\u2019s famous \u201cblack experiment\u201d did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players\u2014Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks\u2014in 1954. And as a relevant backdrop off the field, it was in May of that year that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation be outlawed in America\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring original interviews with key players and weaving together the narrative of one of baseball\u2019s greatest seasons with the racially charged events of that year, 1954 demonstrates how our national pastime\u2014with the notable exception of the Yankees, who represented white supremacy in the game\u2014was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1954: THE YEAR WILLIE MAYS AND THE FIRST GENERATION OF BLACK SUPERSTARS CHANGED MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FOREVER New book by Bill Madden due on Willie Mays&#8217; birthday. Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. 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