Title: First issue of the first short-lived African-American sports magazine, 1953 Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1953 Description: (Jackie Robinson, “editor”) Our Sports / The Negro’s Own Sports Magazine / A New Monthly Magazine Featuring Negro Athletes”. The first of the only five issues published: Vol. 1, Nos. 1, May 1953. Original pictorial wrappers. 8.5 x 11”, 74pp. Very rare. Only the University of Notre Dame and one other institution hold copies of the short-lived periodical. Six years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line of major league baseball, he lent his name, as nominal “editor”, to this first attempt to publish a magazine about Black athletes in all areas of American sport - which failed in less than a year. As Robinson was then still an All-Star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, it’s doubtful that he had any hands-on responsibility for this magazine, though he did write AN article for this first issue in which he “Picks the Pennant Winners” of the 1953 season. Executive Editor S.W.Garlington, veteran African-American journalist, newscaster and columnist for the influential Black New York Amsterdam News, may have had more to do with the intriguing blend of articles, which, in this issue, asked “Why Can’t Negroes Wrestle in Nation’s Capital?” and “Will There Ever be a Big League Negro Manager?” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247920
Title: First issue of the first short-lived African-American sports magazine, 1953 Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1953 Description: (Jackie Robinson, “editor”) Our Sports / The Negro’s Own Sports Magazine / A New Monthly Magazine Featuring Negro Athletes”. The first of the only five issues published: Vol. 1, Nos. 1, May 1953. Original pictorial wrappers. 8.5 x 11”, 74pp. Very rare. Only the University of Notre Dame and one other institution hold copies of the short-lived periodical. Six years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line of major league baseball, he lent his name, as nominal “editor”, to this first attempt to publish a magazine about Black athletes in all areas of American sport - which failed in less than a year. As Robinson was then still an All-Star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, it’s doubtful that he had any hands-on responsibility for this magazine, though he did write AN article for this first issue in which he “Picks the Pennant Winners” of the 1953 season. Executive Editor S.W.Garlington, veteran African-American journalist, newscaster and columnist for the influential Black New York Amsterdam News, may have had more to do with the intriguing blend of articles, which, in this issue, asked “Why Can’t Negroes Wrestle in Nation’s Capital?” and “Will There Ever be a Big League Negro Manager?” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247920
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