"Sunday Coming"

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This paper discusses black baseball players of times gone by through a review of Darrell J. Howard's book, "Sunday Coming: Black Baseball in Virginia". The paper presents stories about players who played for love of the game and pride in their communities. The paper explains that these games were played during the period of Jim Crow segregation when black people were forced to avoid using public bathrooms, public drinking fountains, and clearly, the fun of the game lifted spirits up for black folks during a time of rampant racism and prejudice in Virginia and elsewhere in America.

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"Moreover, in an era today when ballplayers make millions of dollars per year to play the traditional game of baseball, and fans read about the drugs being used by some players " and a one-time great player named Ken Caminiti who admitted to using cocaine and steroids, died in October, 2004 at the age of 41 from his abuses " reading Sunday Coming is a joy and a throwback to an era of innocence. And in this modern era when fans pay up to $50 a ticket, and even much more, to watch the millionaires play the game of baseball, it is refreshing to read Sunday Coming. That is because Sunday Coming is about a period of time not so long ago in America when men played "for the sport and competition, without the expensive promotion, sponsorship, gratuitous pay and reward" (4)."

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