New Jimmy Claxton Ebook Out Tomorrow!
 

I am very happy to announce the release of the new ebook "Darkhorse: The Jimmy Claxton Story" on Amazon Kindle now. For those without a Kindle device, perfect bound copies will be available February 29.

To commemorate the upcoming centennial of professional baseball's most unlikely integration, May 28, 2016, The Jimmy Claxton Story not only covers the ups-and-downs of his forty year baseball career, but also discusses his father's role as an African American strikebreaker in Cascade Mountain coal mines (1888), and his nephews ascendency to the judiciary (the Honorable Judge Jack Tanner, first African American federal judge west of the Mississippi). The book is exhaustively researched and detailed. His story is much greater than one outing in Oakland, or reducible to a baseball card. A thorough Pacific Northwest black history, I hope the book transcends geography and is as relevant today as it was one hundred years ago.

The Official Historian of Major League Baseball, John Thorn, previews the book thusly:"Ty Phelan tells the story behind one of baseball's most puzzling integration milestones; the Zee-nut card of 1916 featuring a black ballplayer with the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. How did this player break the color line, or pass it by? Where did he come from? Was there more to Jimmy Claxton than this anomalous foray into Organized Baseball? Yes indeed, and author Phelan reveals all."

http://www.amazon.com/Darkhorse-Jimm...+claxton+story

Thank you seattlerainiers, bbpostcards, oaks1912, tlwise12, conor912, 71buc, for awesome feedback, and many contributions. Thank you as well, Leon and net54 for allowing me to make this announcement on your site.

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Congratulations on your accomplishment. I've been looking forward to this. Am not an eBook guy so will be counting the days until the printed book is available.

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Congrats Ty, and good luck!! (great Z there David)

Congrats Ty I'm sure it will be well received.

I am half way through the book now. Learning lots about Claxton that I did not know. Very well researched book, you should be very proud Ty!

Thank you all for the kind words and great support! If you're shut in due to inclement weather, here's an engrossing read to get you through the weekend :D

Undeniably a great pitcher, he was also a better hitter than many realize, frequently hitting clean-up for integrated semi-pro and minor league teams throughout the 1920-30's. His story of integration is far stranger than fiction, and 1916 Oakland was just the tip of the iceberg.

To commemorate the centennial of Jimmy Claxton's integration of professional baseball here is a text that goes well beyond one day in 1916. Perfect bound copies of Darkhorse: The Jimmy Claxton Story are now available at Print-On-Demand publisher theBookPatch bookstore for $14.95. Here is the direct link:

http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStor...d-cd0bdb9e372d