Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary

by Michael E. Lomax

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815607865
• ISBN13: 9780815607861
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.2"