Bender, Chief; Baseball.

Description:

View of Philadelphia Athletics pitcher, Charles Albert "Chief" Bender throwing a pitch, with spectators in the stands in background. "Charles Albert Bender was one of baseball’s most talented pitchers, by the end of his major league career in 1925, he had accrued 212 wins and more than 1,700 strikeouts, and in 1953, he became the first American Indian elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, but as a high-profile Chippewa Indian in a bigoted society, Bender knew firsthand the trauma of racism," from "Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation," by William C. Kashatus.

Notes:

Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library

Date Issued:

1910-06-04T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Subject Topic:

Pitchers (Baseball) and Ojibwa Indians

Subject Name:

Bender, Charles Albert and 1883-1954

Format:

photographs

Rights:

Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

URL:

http://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc35589_1