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When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the "color line" and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent years doing exhaustive background research and interviewing players. This role could not just go to an extraordinary athlete, but one of immense character as well

Things went down with integration in the National Basketball Association a bit differently. The NBA had only formed in 1946, and was still sorting out franchises and struggling for recognition on April 25, 1950 when the basketball owners sat down for the annual player...

Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard...they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.

This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to Post-Integration decline.

HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics...

Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of all time--MLB Rookie of the Year, World Series Champion, six-time all-star, MVP, and a lifetime batting average of .311. But he is most remembered for breaking racial barriers by becoming the first African American to play in the major leagues since the 1880s.

This book traces Robinsons life, both on the field and his personal life--from his childhood and career in the military to his days in the Negro leagues and with the Brooklyn Dodgers; it also covers briefly his life after baseball.

LifeCaps is an...

The history of sports and race is messy. In baseball Jackie Robinson is universally touted as the first black major league player, which conveniently forgets Moses Fleetwood Walker and other players of color who appeared on 19th century diamonds.

Football deals with the messiness a different way. The sport employs the term "modern era" instead. So Kenny Washington is the first black player of the "modern era." James Harris was the first black quarterback to start an NFL game in the "modern era." Art Shell was the first black head coach of the "modern era." The reason football...

For as long as there have been automobiles, there have been courageous men and women with nerves of steel, willing to risk life and limb to race them.

This book takes you on an inside look at one of the greatest racing sports of them all: F1. Let HistorCaps take you on a journey through the creation of the sport to what the future holds

HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue...

The first complete 2017 color and illustrated guide for U.S. Marine Corps military ribbon and medal wear on male and female uniforms. 2017 USMC military ribbons / attachments wear on the male and female uniform is illustrated in easy to follow detail with numerous color examples. A unique color chart shows the correct order for multi service ribbons wear for Marines who have served in other branches of the service (Army, Navy, USAF and USCG).

Additionally eight other highly requested areas are covered:

Ribbon Devices & United Nation Ribbons

Placement of Devices on...