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Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games of the Negro Leagues' Most Important City

Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games of the Negro Leagues' Most Important City

Heaphy, Leslie A.

Paperback

Series: Jerry Malloy Conference, Book 1

Baseball & SoftballBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0786426748
ISBN13: 9780786426744
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 267
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Founded in 1920, the Negro National League originally comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league's groundwork was laid in one city--Chicago. Two of the season's eight inaugural teams were based in the South Side, which was also the adopted home of Rube Foster, the Father of the Negro Leagues. A former stand-out pitcher in the Windy City, Foster founded the dominant Chicago American Giants. As the first president of the Negro National League, Foster controlled all major aspects of the game, from personnel to equipment and ticket sales, and his influence left black baseball indelibly associated with Chicago.

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