User:Seashellcollector128972/Baseball color line/Bibliography

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Bibliography

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Bibliography

Dreier, Peter. “Sam Nahem: The Right-Handed Lefty Who Integrated Military Baseball in World War II.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 26, no. 1 (2017): 184–215. https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2017.0025
1. - I chose this source because it fully details Nahem’s role in integrating the only baseball team that competed overseas during the second world war. Gives further information about his interest in Communist Party.
Dreier, Peter, and Robert Elias. Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2bfhhv0
1. - I chose this source because it gives further supporting information on Sam Nahem’s leftist views and their origin (his background).
Fetter, Henry D. “The Party Line and the Color Line: The American Communist Party, the ‘Daily Worker’, and Jackie Robinson.” Journal of Sport History 28, no. 3 (2001): 375–402. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43610199
1. - I chose this source because it pushes back on the idea that Rodney, the Communist Party, and the Daily Worker had a substantial influence on the outcome of Jackie Robinson crossing the color line. They provide information claiming that the Daily Worker did not do enough to detail the struggle to break the color line once Jackie had signed for the Dodgers. Pushes back on commonly held understanding of breaking of color line.
Jason Scheller, “The National Pastime Enlists: How Baseball Fought the Second World War,” (Texas Tech University, 2002) https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/efc078b2-354d-4465-b12f-d9c0ee667845/content
1. Further information about OISE All-stars.
Tygeil, Jules, Irwin Silber, and Lester Rodney. “Press Box Red by Lester Rodney and Irwin Silber: An Introduction and a Chapter.” American Communist History 2, no. 1 (June 2003): 95–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474389032000112627 (tentative, might just use "Press Box Red" book itself)
1. The commonly held understanding of the breaking of the color line. This account is the more popular understanding and it is mainly detailed on Rodney’s own wiki page. Due to Wikipedia's neutrality rules, thought it would be important to give both this view of the situation as well as Fetter’s.

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Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
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Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
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References

Outline of proposed changes

Add a section for former ballplayer Sam Nahem and former sportswriter Lester Rodney under the MLB Influencers subsection in the Baseball color line article.

(original proposal)

My idea for the Baseball color line article boils down to adding a section that links socialist and communist activism with the de-segregation of baseball. There are many sources that detail the link between integration and the support from non-black leftists of the day. Under the MLB influencers section, there is much more room to incorporate more names of former agents, executives, players, managers, or writers that had influence on the integration of baseball. In relation to our course, I thought it would be interesting to add the influences of former MLB player Sam Nahem and former writer Lester Rodney to the list of MLB influencers. Sam Nahem openly possessed communist, socialist, or leftist sympathies and is outwardly labeled a communist across numerous sources. He helped break the color line by player-managing the OISE All-Stars and competing in the European Theater of Operations World Series. They won 17 games, only losing once, en route to becoming the ETO World Series Champions as the only integrated team in the competition. Lester Rodney was a former writer for the Daily Worker and was an avid socialist. There are differing conclusions from sources as to the extent of his involvement in the integration of baseball, but it is undeniable that his writing did have some effect on the ultimate outcome.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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