Chief Bender's burden :: the silent struggle of a baseball star /

With a journalist?s eye for detail and a novelist?s feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender?s improbable journey?from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The...

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Main Author: Swift, Tom
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:With a journalist?s eye for detail and a novelist?s feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender?s improbable journey?from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, Chief Bender?s Burden is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life.
Physical Description:1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780803243224
0803243227
128121342X
9781281213426
9786611213428
6611213422

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