ABSTRACT

Sports journalists and athletes acted as foreign correspondents for the U.S. black press in the early to mid-twentieth century. During this period, hundreds of African American baseball players left the United States to participate in Latin American leagues. Inspired by their journeys, sportswriters used the ballplayers’ transnational movement to explore sport and society in other parts of the Americas. From their correspondences with the athletes combined with their journeys abroad, sports journalists observed and documented the ballplayers’ international experiences for audiences at home. Additionally, some athletes, including Jackie Robinson, wrote featured stories for news publications, serving as de-facto correspondents in the process. This article suggests that by looking to the sports pages, scholars can locate alternative ways that black Americans learned about global conceptions of race and the color line in print media during the first half of the twentieth century.

摘要

体育记者和运动员在20世纪初至20世纪中叶担任美国黑人新闻的外国记者。在此期间，数百名非裔美国棒球运动员离开美国参加拉丁美洲联赛。受他们的旅程启发，体育作家利用棒球运动员的跨国运动来探索美洲其他地区的体育和社会。体育记者从他们与运动员的往来往来中，结合出国旅行，观察并记录了球员在国内对观众的国际经历。此外，包括杰基·罗宾逊（Jackie Robinson）在内的一些运动员为新闻出版物撰写了专题报道，并在此过程中担任了实际通讯员。本文建议，通过查看体育页面，