Download Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training AudioBook Free
In 1961, when the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, for planting season training, neither team possessed any proven fact that a feisty medical doctor was going to transform its world upside down. To Major Little league Football, Dr. Ralph Wimbish was only a black homeowner able to house the team's African American ball players, who have been segregated using their company white teammates-except on the diamond-during planting season training. The laws and regulations in Florida, like the rest of the South, were dictated by Jim Crow. Major Little league Baseball possessed no programs to upend it. Dr. Wimbish possessed other ideas. Sketching on personal interviews, publication accounts, archival documents, and memoirs, Adam Henig has written a tale that New York Post athletics columnist Mike Vacarro and Tampa Bay Times' Jon Wilson called "essential read!" A book for football enthusiasts that moves beyond the game, Football Under Siege (formerly titled Under One Roof) is an unforgettable tale of the little-known civil privileges activist who risked it all to accomplish racial justice in his city, in his status, and in America's favorite pastime.
