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In 1907, Sol White, A Remarkable African-american Ballplayer, Successful Manager, And Baseball Loyalist, Wrote A Small Volume On The History Of The Black Game. Part Fund-raising Effort, Advertising Brochure, Team Hype, Celebration Of Black Baseball, And Throughout An Implicit And Explicit Challenge To Racism, Sol White's History Of Colored Base Ball Is The Source Of Much Of What We Know Of The Events In The Organized Black Game Of That Time. The Original Was Poorly Printed, And Copies Are Exceedingly Rare (known And Rumored Copies Number Only Four). This Edition Republishes The Full 1907 Edition (with The Even Rarer Supplement), Completely Reset For Legibility, And Reproduces All The Original's Illustrations, Including Advertisements That Speak Volumes On The Social World Of The Day. Fifteen Additional Documents From 1886 To 1936 Augment The Picture Of The Black Game And Our Record Of Sol White Himself. Introduction: Sol White And The Origins Of African American Baseball / Jerry Malloy -- 1. Sol White's Official Baseball Guide -- 2. History Of Colored Base-ball During 1907 -- 3. The Colored Giants. A Brief Sketch Of Trenton's Base Club -- 4. The Cuban Giants... / J. Gordon Street -

Author
and introduced by Jerry Malloy
Publisher
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780803297838
Subjects
Sports, Anthropology, History

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