An account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. It assesses the impact of urbanization and migration, and applauds those innovators who forged black baseball into a parallel club that also appealed to whites.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780815607861
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: 04-01-2003
Pages: 272
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Series: Sports and Entertainment
About the Author
Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of sport history in the Department of Health and Human Physiology at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: The Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues.