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

An account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. It assesses the impact of urbanization and migration, and applauds those innovators who forged black baseball into a parallel club that also appealed to whites.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/2003
ISBN: 9780815607861
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.90w x 0.69d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/25/2003 pg. 10
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2003 pg. 57