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The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory (Cass Series--Sport in the Global Society, 11.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Phil Vasili
Publisher: Frank Cass
Category: Book
Buy New: $49.95
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Sales Rank: 5960123
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0714644595
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334092
EAN: 9780714644592
ASIN: 0714644595
Publication Date: September 30, 1997
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Product Description
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer. He was also the first 100 yards world record holder and twice amateur sprint champion of Britain. He came from a wealthy Gold Coast/Ghanaian family, enjoyed national celebrity in England as an all-round athlete, but died a pauper in a South Yorkshire pit village.
Recounted within the social, cultural and political context of Victorian England, Wharton's story not only remembers the turbulent personal and professional life of an eminent sportsman but offers fresh insight into the onset of professionalism in British sport, the class divide and the beginnings of institutionalized racism.
The author is collaborating with Irvine Welsh on a dramatization of Wharton's life which Channel 4 will broadcast next year.
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