Widely considered the best black player of the 19th century, Hall-of-Famer Frank Grant challenged baseball's color barrier in the 1880s to play for all-white professional teams--two of which fought a legal battle for his services. This first full-length biography documents Grant's career highlights, including successful games against Major League teams and at-bats against Hall-of-Fame pitchers. Stories overlooked for more than a century are examined, including a falsified anecdote that obscured one of Grant's best games from history. New light is shed on the early years of the Cuban Giants, the first black pro ball club.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
30 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8460-4 (9781476684604)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Richard Bogovich, a contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research's Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century (2012), works for the Wendland Utz law firm in Rochester, Minnesota.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: A Superlative Career
?1.?A Family Accustomed to Freedom
?2.?Serious About Base Ball
?3.?Magic in Meriden (April to July 1886)
?4.?Buffalo and Immediate Stardom (July to October 1886)
?5.?A Bitter Pennant Battle (1887)
?6.?Winning Streak (1888)
?7.?Black Team in a White League (1889)
?8.?Ordered to Harrisburg (1890 to April 1891)
?9.?A Finale of Sorts (April-June 1891)
10.?Barnstorming (1891-1892)
11.?Making History from Cooperstown to Chicago (1893-1894)
12.?A "Cuban" Rivalry (1895-1897)
13.?Lured Away (1898-1903)
14.?Exit from the Game (1904 and After)
15.?From Obscurity to Enshrinement
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
