Black Baseball Black Business

Author : Roberta J. Newman,Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626742253

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Black Baseball, Black Business by Roberta J. Newman,Joel Nathan Rosen Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations--Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball's elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball's desegregation narrative in a critical and wide ranging fashion.

Author : Michael E. Lomax
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780815652823

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Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931 by Michael E. Lomax Pdf

As the companion volume to Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860–1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary, Lomax’s new book continues to chronicle the history of black baseball in the United States. The first volume traced the development of baseball from an exercise in community building among African Americans in the pre–Civil War era to a commercialized amusement and a rare and lucrative opportunity for entrepreneurship within the black community. In this book, Lomax takes a closer look at the marketing and promotion of the Negro Leagues by black baseball magnates. He explores how race influenced black baseball’s institutional development and shaped the business relationship with white clubs and managers. Lomax analyzes the decisions that black baseball magnates made to insulate themselves from outside influences. He explains how this insulation may have distorted their perceptions and ultimately led to the Negro Leagues’ demise. The collapse of the Negro Leagues by 1931 was, Lomax argues, "a dream deferred in the overall African American pursuit for freedom and self-determination."

Author : Neil Lanctot
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780812202564

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Negro League Baseball by Neil Lanctot Pdf

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution presents the extraordinary history of a great African American achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league city. He then conducted interviews with former players and scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need for separate institutions.

Author : Michael E. Lomax
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815629702

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Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901 by Michael E. Lomax Pdf

Here is the first in-depth account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. In the late nineteenth century resourceful black businessmen founded ball teams that became the Negro Leagues. Racial bias aside, they faced vast odds, from the need to court white sponsors to negotiating ball parks. With no blacks in cities, they barnstormed small towns to attract fans, employing all manner of gimmickry to rouse attention. Drawing on major newspapers and obscure African-American journals, the author explores the diverse forces that shaped minority baseball. He looks unflinchingly at prejudice in amateur and pro circles and constant inadequate press coverage. He assesses the impact of urbanization, migration, and the rise of northern ghettoes, and he applauds those bold innovators who forged black baseball into a parallel club that appealed to whites yet nurtured a uniquely African American playing style. This was black baseball's finest hour: at once a source of great ethnic pride and a hard won pathway for integration into the mainstream.

Author : John B. Holway
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486136479

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Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues by John B. Holway Pdf

The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.

Author : William McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786429011

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Black Baseball Out of Season by William McNeil Pdf

This book tells the story of the thousands of anonymous black professional baseball players whose talents were played out in the undiscovered world of the Negro leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Chapter One introduces the swamplands of Florida where two teams of Negro athletes began to gain national attention for their performances in Palm Beach at the end of the 19th century. The remaining chapters follow the winter leaguers from New York to Venezuela and everywhere in between, revealing the largely unheard-of success stories.

Author : Society for American Baseball Research,Larry Lester,Duke Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1970159413

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From Rube to Robinson by Society for American Baseball Research,Larry Lester,Duke Goldman Pdf

From Rube to Robinson aims to bring together the best Negro League baseball scholarship that the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) has ever produced, culled from its journals, Biography Project, and award-winning essays. The book includes a star-studded list of scholars and historians, from the late Jerry Malloy and Jules Tygiel, to award winners Larry Lester, Geri Strecker, and Jeremy Beer, and a host of other talented writers. Beginning in the 19th century, Todd Peterson's "May the Best Man Win: The Black Ball Championships 1866-1923" opens the volume and inventories claims to baseball supremacy that preceded the Colored World Series competition that began in 1924. The late Jerry Malloy, whose name graces SABR's annual Negro League Conference, covers an early attempt at forming a Black baseball circuit in "The Pittsburgh Keystones and the 1887 Colored League."There are also profiles of some of the Negro Leagues' now-mythic figures: Sol White (by Jay Hurd), Rube Foster (by Larry Lester), and Oscar Charleston. Seymour Award winning author Jeremy Beer contributes his article "Hothead: How the Oscar Charleston Myth Began," which rebuts the oft-repeated notion that Charleston was in need of anger management.Ballparks and venues also get a look. James Overmyer's "Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium" describes the tenant/landlord relationship of Negro Leagues teams with the New York Yankees during the 1930s and 40s, while Geri Driscoll Strecker's "The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field" is a cradle-to-grave biography of the Pittsburgh Crawfords' stadium.The final section of the book covers integration and the socio-economics of Black baseball. Leading off is Larry Lester's masterful "Can You Read, Judge Landis?" which refutes the contention that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was blameless for the persistence of baseball's segregation. MLB's official historian John Thorn and the late Jules Tygiel weigh in with "Jackie Robinson's Signing: The Real, Untold Story," and Duke Goldman presents an in-depth and meticulously referenced recap of the winter meetings and in-season owners meetings from the formation of a second Negro National League in 1933 through the last gasp of the Negro American League in 1962.

Author : Robert E. Weems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African American business enterprises
ISBN : UCSC:32106013339145

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Black Business in the Black Metropolis by Robert E. Weems Pdf

Author : Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert,Rebecca T. Alpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0190619139

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Out of Left Field by Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert,Rebecca T. Alpert Pdf

"In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Through in-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. Some Jewish owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball's Harlem Globetrotters--indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein was very active in black baseball--that reaped financial benefits for both owners and players but also played upon the worst stereotypes of African Americans and prevented these black "showmen" from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by the traditional Jewish commitment to social justice, helped grow the business of black baseball in the face of the oppressive Jim Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writing for the Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball's segregation."--From publisher description.

Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : Artabras
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0896600912

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When the Game Was Black and White by Bruce Chadwick Pdf

Traces the history of the Negro baseball leagues, offers profiles of top players and their accomplishments, and shares the memories of players and fans

Author : Will Pascoe
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1419645471

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A Noble Game by Will Pascoe Pdf

The Negro Baseball Leagues were one of the first and most successful black businesses in the United States during the first half of the twentieth-century. Combing great athletic skill, shrewd marketing, and a professional spirit that was the equal to its white major-league counterpart, black baseball was so successful in its efforts to show a competitive game to a larger section of America, that ultimately its own success led to its spectacular downfall. When Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's "color wall" in 1947, the game of baseball was changed forever, and for the Negro Baseball Leagues, it was the beginning of the end. A Noble Game looks at the rise and fall of the Negro Baseball Leagues, what they meant to America in an age of segregation, and how their success was a powerful influence during the early days of the American Civil Rights movement. Including interviews with former Negro League stars and exhaustive research, A Noble Game is a rich study of what baseball meant to Americans - both black and white - in the decades before Jackie Robinson changed history. A Noble Game is the little-known story of how the first popular civil rights battle - and victory - occurred not in the courts or in the legislature, but on the baseball diamond.

Author : Jacob Margolies
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613139887

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Negro Leagues by Jacob Margolies Pdf

Illustrated with prints and photos, this book documents the history of Negro League baseball teams which flourished in the early 20th century in spite of discrimination.

Author : Juliet E. K. Walker
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028560360

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Encyclopedia of African American Business History by Juliet E. K. Walker Pdf

The only reference source providing readily accessible information on the broad range of topics that illuminate black business history.

Author : Larry Lester
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803280009

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Black Baseball's National Showcase by Larry Lester Pdf

A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.

Author : Jim Reisler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786429073

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Black Writers/Black Baseball by Jim Reisler Pdf

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers, they faced the same conditions as the leagues' players, from discrimination to endless travel. Yet it was through their writings that the public, both black and white were given an up-close, inside look at the day-to-day happenings of Negro League baseball.