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

By: Heaphy, Leslie A.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786426748
• ISBN13: 9780786426744
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher