Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dennis Biddle.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Biddle, Dennis
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 50 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Baseball player and social worker Dennis Biddle was born on June 24, 1935 in Magnolia, Arkansas. When a scout and booking agent for the Negro League Chicago American Giants saw Biddle pitch a no-hitter in a local high school championship game, Biddle was offered the opportunity to try out for the team. He succeeded at tryouts and played for the Chicago American Giants during the 1953 and 1954 seasons. In 1955, a leg injury forced him to end his baseball career. Biddle returned to school in 1958 and received his B.A. degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin. For the next twenty-four years, Biddle was employed by the State of Wisconsin as a social worker in the corrections system. In 1996, Biddle founded Yesterday's Negro League Baseball Players LLC, an organization dedicated to supporting the surviving members of the Negro League baseball teams and defending their economic interests.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Dennis Biddle
• Dennis Biddle

Subjects

• Nonfiction films
• Internet videos
• Oral histories
• Interviews
• Social Worker > Baseball Player
• African Americans > Interviews
• Biddle, Dennis > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

994208917

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dennis Biddle.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

025029

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2008 November 18.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Social Worker Baseball Player.

Added Author

Biddle, Dennis, interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.