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TN Writers | TN Stories : Keith B. Wood, Ph.D., "Memphis Red Sox" with Skip Nipper

Category:  Event Calendar

Date and Time

  • Saturday, Apr 12, 2025  10:30am - 11:30am

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Location

Tennessee State Museum
1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd

Details

"The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History" examines the city's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era. The Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization, stood as a pillar of success. Baseball provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. The team centered itself in their black-owned stadium, which served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.