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Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseballs Civil War Audiobook, by Chris Lamb Play Audiobook Sample

Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War Audiobook

Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseballs Civil War Audiobook, by Chris Lamb Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Midnite Michael Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765023242

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

23

Longest Chapter Length:

49:57 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18:09 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

31:53 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization's guests at the World Series, where they heard spectators yell, "Let them play! Let them play!" when the ballplayers were introduced.

Stolen Dreams is the story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil rights movement. It's also the story of centuries of bigotry in Charleston, South Carolina—where millions of enslaved people were brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone who challenged it did so at their own risk.

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