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Poster titled "Gridiron Greats: The Digest of North American Football and Its Memorabilia" featuring a football at the top, four pages of USFL championship tickets from 1983 to 1985, and photos of football players. The poster highlights final games from Michigan, Philadelphia, Tampa, Baltimore, Oakland, and Fukuoka, with a note about the final game of the original USFL on July 14, 1985.

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Jason Jordan (University of New Hampshire) teaches courses in African-American and US History. He received his undergraduate degree from Rhodes College in Memphis and his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research centers on issues of race and its role in shaping modern America.

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Memphis Showboats

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Podcast

Sat down with my good friend from Nashville SABR, Skip Nipper, to talk about some Memphis Red Sox baseball. Skip loves all things baseball in Nashville, and that love extends west down I-40 to Memphis. This 30-minute pod only cracks the surface. But it tells a great story.

Memphis Redbirds celebrate

1938 Negro American League Pennant

August 10, 2024 - Memphis, TN

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To get a copy of Memphis Hoops or The Memphis Red Sox, shop locally at Novel Books and Oxbeau, or online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Book News

  • Book cover titled "Memphis Hoops" with an illustration of a basketball player holding a basketball and making a hand gesture. Subtitle: "Race and Basketball in the Bluff City, 1968-1997" by Keith B. Wood.

    Memphis Hoops - Ranked #1 by Novel for local authors

    November 2023

    Novel Books in Memphis lists Memphis Hoops as the #1 selling book by a local author. Make sure to make your way over to Novel Books to pick up your copy.

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    Are you ready for some football?

    For years, Memphis has chased an NFL franchise. In the 1970s, John Bassett brought the WFL to Memphis. Then, in 1983, Logan Young acquired an expansion franchise in David Dixon’s USFL. William Dunavn purchased the team from Logan, as it became one of the most successful clubs in the short-lived USFL. Reggie White, Mike Lewis, Derrick Crawford, and a city crazed by football.

    Looking forward to working on this project and getting this out to a publisher in the near future.

  • Black and white photo of young African American baseball players on a field, with some shaking hands and others standing nearby, under a covered bleachers.

    The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History

    IN STORES NOW- McFarland Publishing

    A story hidden in the annals of Negro leagues history. Historians have primarily focused on teams outside of the South. The Memphis Red Sox is not constructed as a fundamental historical narrative. Instead, it takes you on a nine-inning journey to experience what it means to be a Memphis Red Sox. The Memphis Red Sox remained one of the most stable franchises in Negro leagues' history. Black ownership of the team and stadium made the franchise almost an anomaly in black baseball. Their story is left behind the Negro Leagues' more prominent franchises: the Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the Homestead Grays, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, and the Birmingham Black Barons.

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During the 1938 NAL Championship Season for the Red Sox, they played the Atlanta Black Crackers at Ponce De Leon Park in Atlanta. Credit: Atlanta Negro Chamber of Commerce Film Collection.