The Page Fence Giants : a history of Black baseball's pioneering champions
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書誌事項
The Page Fence Giants : a history of Black baseball's pioneering champions
McFarland & Company, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is the first book on the all-star championship black baseball team, the Page Fence Giants, who graced the diamond in the 1890s. The team was formed through a unique business partnership between black and white baseball boosters, with the support of an Adrian, Michigan fencing company. This book examines how a dynamic baseball team was founded in a small Michigan community and the cultural challenges the players, owners and boosters encountered during the team's successful four-year run. This book is a much broader than simple game recaps, but rather an examination of our country as it stood at the close of the 19th Century. The era's expanding Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Giants' best players from the reaching the major leagues. Despite the societal roadblock, one of the Giants has been selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and he was nowhere near their best player. This book's goal is to tell a fascinating tale about long ignored star ball players on a long-ignored team, whose story offered a glimpse of American at a time when baseball integration was phased out until the debut of Jackie Robinson in 1947.
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