The Kings of Casino Park : Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932.

In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the "lynch law center of Louisiana." race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class...

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Main Author: Aiello, Thomas
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Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: The 1932 Negro Southern League; 1. The Horror: Race Culture in the "Lynch Law Center of louisiana"; 2. The Jazz age and the Depression: The Different Trajectories of Monroe and Black Baseball in the 1920s; 3. The flood: Water, Race, and the Monarchs in Early 1932; 4. The Monarchs and the Major Leagues: The State of Black Baseball in 1932; 5. Spring Training: The Monarchs, the Crawfords, and the Negro Southern League; 6. The First Half: April-July 1932; 7. The Southern against the South: The first- Half Pennant Controversy. 
505 8 |a 8. The Second Half: July-August 19329. The World Series: September-October 1932; 10. After September: The Season, the Monarchs, and Monroe in the Popular and Historical Mind; Conclusion: "We Have Yet to Find a Moses"; Appendix 1. 1932 Monroe Monarchs Schedule and Results; Appendix 2. Timeline of 1932 Player/Personnel Acquisitions; Appendix 3. Monroe Monarchs Roster Breakdown and Comparison; Appendix 4. Statistical Analysis of the Available Data for the 1932 Monroe Monarchs; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index; Illustrations follow page 34; Tables follow page 80. 
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