Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and their bitter crosstown rivals, the Minneapolis Keystones, had the talent, bench depth, and determination to rival many of those later, better known teams. (The Gophers, in fact, beat Chicago's celebrated Leland Giants in 1909, laying claim to blackball's western championship.) Focusing on these two clubs, author Peterson lays out the early history of African American baseball in the Upper Midwest. Included are new statistics and more than 50 rarely seen photographs.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"I am tremendously impressed with Todd Peterson's success in finding so many game results and biographical information on black players of the Minneapolis-St.Paul teams of this era. Peterson has done future baseball generations of the upper Midwest a great service in writing their history"-Nine; "Peterson has opened a door which had been locked for over 100 years, and discovers plenty of surprises inside...Peterson approached this work as a passionate craftsman. It's a research tour de force, richly detailed...If you're serious about baseball and want the keys to an important, underexplored part of the game's history, you might wish to pick up a copy"-Outsider Baseball Bulletin.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
62 photos, chronologies, statistics, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-3816-7 (9780786438167)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Visual artist and teacher Todd Peterson lives in Overland Park, Missouri. His work has been published in Baseball Research Journal and Black Ball.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Fowler to Williams to Ball (1873-1899)
2. The Whole Show (1900-1906)
3. Fast Team in the City (1907)
4. The Road Leads Somewhere
5. Cutting a Wide Swath (January-June 1908)
7. Can You Hear the Noise? (1909)
8. The Boys Are Back in Town (1910)
9. Not So Fast (January-June 1911)
10. On the Way Home (July 1911-1912)
11. By Any Other Name (1913-1948)
12. After Many a Summer
Appendix I. Game Chronologies and Team Statistics
Appendix II. Player Register
Appendix III. Rosters of Minnesota Black Teams 1876-1945
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
