The early image of black baseball
Subtitle: race and representation in the popular press, 1871-1890
By: James Edward Brunson III.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786442065
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Negro leagues -- History -- 19th century; African American baseball players -- Public opinion; African Americans in mass media -- History -- 19th century; Athletes in mass media; Public opinion -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Examines early black baseball as represented in artwork and accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, image of the black athlete emerges, not always positive but nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Covers championship games, specific teams and athletes, fans and culture surrounding black baseball"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dust from many diamonds : trauma, memory, and the colored championship; title: "Fifteenth-amendment club-slingers" : colored base ball and the St. Louis Sporting Fraternity, 1875-1877; title: Dudes, macks, land ladies, waiters, tonsorialists, and aesthetes : the Colored Sporting Fraternity; title: Men of mark and marked men : black baseball representation; title: "A mirthful spectacle":  representing negro comedy or black aesthetic style; title: Genuine colored artists : black legs, black stockings, and colored baseball, 1877-1888; title: Coda: A glance over the diamond fields of the continent : Henry Bridgewater's "now famous" black stockings.