The Forgotten History of African American Baseball
• Contains exclusive primary source commentary derived from veteran Black journalist Alvin E. White (1890-1980), providing priceless eyewitness observations of the people, culture, and emotions of a time so long ago• Documents how the simple elegance and exuberance of a sport served to help undo the negative assessments of African Americans that precipitated race prejudice and segregation in America• Takes readers into the worlds of black and white culture of which baseball was so much a part• Presents a wide variety of original materials, documents, and historic images, including a never before published certificate making Frederick Douglass an honorary member of an early Black baseball team and author-conducted personal interviews• Chronological chapter organization clearly portrays the development of Black baseball in America over a century's time• Contains a unique collection of period photographs depicting the people and sites of Black baseball• A topical bibliography points readers towards literature of Black baseball and related topics"This is a book for the serious fan of history and baseball. Hogan does an excellent job of placing the players in their time, explaining what was going in this country that allowed the barriers in the first place and what happened as baseball evolved."-The Star-Ledger