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The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.

This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

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The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.

This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

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The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

by Lawrence D. Hogan
The Forgotten History of African American Baseball
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The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

by Lawrence D. Hogan

Overview

For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.

This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313379857
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 01/27/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 269
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Lawrence D. Hogan is emeritus professor of history at Union County College, Cranford, NJ.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Baseball, and Something More Besides
Chapter 1 Coming to Bat in Sundown Baseball
Chapter 2 The Beginnings: 19th-Century Blackball
Chapter 3 The Age of Great Players Playing for Great Independent Teams, 1900–1920
Chapter 4 "New Negroes" in the Midst of American Sport's Golden Age, 1920–1930
Chapter 5 The "New Negro" as Baseball Player, 1920–1930
Chapter 6 Hard Times for America and for Blackball, 1930–1940
Chapter 7 The Seasons of Change, 1940–1947
Chapter 8 A History That Is Lost? Stolen? Strayed?, 1947–Present
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Paul Dickson

"Larry Hogan’s The Forgotten History of African American Baseball is a compelling eye-opener of a narrative that anyone hoping to get the full story of baseball in America should read. It is a story in which truly heroic individuals overcome evil—personified by Jim Crow and Judge Lynch—and prevail. Hogan brings those heroes back to life in a most readable book."

Dave Kaplan

"The Forgotten World of African American Baseball is an important addition to the chronicles of baseball. It brings alive a forgotten era in our social history by bringing alive the remarkable men whose passion and pride knew no bounds."

Larry Tye

"If you loved Shade of Glory—and who didn't—pick up The Forgotten History. It's not a sequel, but the other half of Lawrence Hogan's story—the one where he replaces facts with ruminations and numbers with reflections. Taken together, Hogan's two books add up to a masterful telling of the tale of America's long-gone kingdom of black baseball."

Dave Winfield

"Thank you Dr. Hogan for this latest reflection and tribute to the Negro Leagues. You have woven the fabric of this historical quilt together from both research and relationships with those players and individuals who lived through those times. To me the institution, the teams, and the people involved are national treasures."

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