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Southern League : a true story of baseball, civil rights, and the deep South's most compelling pennant race / by Colton, Larry.(CARDINAL)718029;
The story of Alabama's first-ever integrated sports team--the Barons of baseball's Southern League--tracing its 1964 season and the heat of Birmingham and its citizens during a tumultuous year.
Subjects: Birmingham Barons (Baseball team); Southern League; Minor league baseball; Baseball; Discrimination in sports;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 10
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The Southern Junior League cookbook / by Seranne, Ann,1914-1988.;
Subjects: Cooking, American;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The diamonds of Dixie : travels through the southern minor leagues / by Green, Ernest J.(CARDINAL)723878;
Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.
Subjects: Minor league baseball;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hockey night in Dixie : playing Canada's game in the American south / by Stott, John C.;
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 211-212).
Subjects: Hockey teams; Minor league hockey;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Brushing back Jim Crow : the integration of minor-league baseball in the American South / by Adelson, Bruce.(CARDINAL)267446;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275).Ed Charles : parables -- Color lines start to fall : 1951 -- Dramatic developments : 1952 -- Change, tension, resistance : 1953 -- Two different places : 1953 the South Atlantic and Piedmont Leagues -- Resistance! : 1953 the Cotton States League and Birmingham -- A year of decision : 1954 -- The battle is joined : 1955 -- Louisiana's sinful ways : 1956 -- Small towns, big cities : 1956-57 -- The sports ban takes the field : 1957 -- Closing out the 1950s : 1958-59 -- Walls collapse : the 1960s -- Baseball and civil rights.
Subjects: Minor league baseball; African American baseball players; Discrimination in sports;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South / by Jacobus, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)858791;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.Foreword / Bill Curry -- Slow progress and the face of change : the post-World War II integration of pro football -- No recourse : the NFL's blackballing of "troublemaker" players -- Pioneers of integration : the rise and fall of the 1952 Dallas Texans -- Headed down south : segregation during exhibition games -- Rooting for the home team : the Cowboys and Texans come to Dallas -- At home in East Texas : the Oilers take the field in Houston -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : team management and the fight for equality -- Fighting back : pro players, celebrities, and entertainers make a stand for civil rights -- Big trouble in the Big Easy : the boycott of the 1964 AFL All-Star Game -- The road to the Cleveland summit : southern expansion and the final exhibition games in Dixie."In post-World War II America, when professional football owners scheduled exhibition games in the South and later placed franchises, they simply overlooked Jim Crow conditions endured by African American players. To Live and Play in Dixie is an oral history from the players themselves on how they battled discrimination while playing and living in the still-segregated South"--
Subjects: National Football League; American Football League; Football; African American football players; African Americans; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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AFC South / by Peterson, Brian C.(CARDINAL)706140;
Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.Houston Texans -- Indianapolis Colts -- Jacksonville Jaguars -- Tennessee Titans.Provides in-depth histories of the four franchises that make up the AFC South. Includes a time line and statistics.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: American Football Conference; National Football League; Football; Football;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The origins of Southern college football : how an Ivy League game became a Dixie tradition / by Bell, Andrew McIlwaine,1970-author.(CARDINAL)304726;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Southern college football today is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. Colossal stadiums that can hold more than 100,000 ticketholders tower over the South's landscapes. The highest paid college football coach in history is the University of Alabama's Nick Saban, who earned at least eleven million dollars during the 2017 season. Saban's success on the gridiron has produced higher enrollment numbers for Alabama and a huge increase in the school's endowment. The conference Saban represents, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), collects more than 450 million dollars annually from bowl games and broadcast deals. Sales of officially-licensed merchandise generate additional revenue. Five of the top ten best-selling college brands at Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, are SEC schools. The introduction of the College Football Playoff (CFP) in 2014 has added even more profits, with ESPN shelling out 7.2 billion dollars over twelve years for broadcast rights to the CFP, which has thus far been dominated by southern teams. With so much interest in southern college football, it is surprising that so few histories of it exist. Those that have been published are either narrowly-focused team histories or celebratory narratives by sports journalists. Andrew Bell's "The Origins of Southern College Football" is the first comprehensive and scholarly study of southern college football that places the history of the game in a broader historical context. Bell begins with the earliest games at the Washington & Lee University during Reconstruction and concludes with the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado's national championship during World War One (the South's first). Between these two points are contained every aspect of the evolution of southern football: The development of "scientific" football at Ivy League universities; the southward spread of football at the hands of Johns Hopkins University graduates; opposition to football among southern conservatives; the first games played by every Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) program below the Mason-Dixon Line; and the violence, mayhem, and deaths that nearly led to the eradication of football at southern universities. Bell's study is more than just a history of the South's favorite pastime; it is also a story of America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the politics and personalities that defined these two turbulent periods. Indeed, Bell shows that football is the ideal prism through which to examine the United States' metamorphosis from a laissez faire industrial society to a bureaucratized one, because football underwent a similar transformation during the same period. Gilded Age football was a brutish and amateurish game that Progressives fashioned into a sport governed by committees and rules which made it safer and more acceptable to middle-class Americans"--
Subjects: Football; College sports; College athletes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Southern city. by North Carolina League of Municipalities.(CARDINAL)169733;
Subjects: Municipal government; Municipal government;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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A Southern collection / by Junior League of Columbus, Georgia.(CARDINAL)740954;
Subjects: Cookbooks; Cooking ; Cooking.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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