Black baseball and Chicago : essays on the players, teams, and games of the Negro leagues' most important city / edited by Leslie A. Heaphy.

""Founded in 1920, the Negro National League comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league's groundwork was laid in one city--Chicago. This work presents notable papers delivered at the 2005 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Chicago. The work offers a cohesive history of Chicago's lon...

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Bibliographic Details
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:	Baseball > Illinois > Chicago > History. Negro leagues > History. African American baseball players > Illinois > Chicago > History. Baseball > United States > History.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	vii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction / by Larry Lester.
Early Black teams in Chicago.
The American Giants and Chicago's Negro League era clubs.
Leading Black ballplayers in Chicago.
Management and owners.
The ballparks, the East-West Classics, integration and the Great Lakes Naval team.
Appendix A: Time line of African American achievements in Chicago baseball.
Appendix B: Rosters.
Appendix C: Chicago players in the major leagues.
Appendix D: East-West Game highlights, 1933-1953.