The Page Fence Giants

A History of Black Baseball's Pioneering Champions

Mitch Lutzke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7165-9 (ISBN)

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The first book on the all-star championship black baseball team, the Page Fence Giants, who graced the diamond in the 1890s. It examines how a dynamic baseball team was founded in a small Michigan community and the cultural challenges the players, owners and boosters encountered during the team's successful four-year run.

The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 1890s. Formed through a partnership between black and white boosters, the team's respectable four-year run was an early integration success--before integration was phased out decades ahead of Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut, and the growing Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Page Fence Giant's best talent from the major leagues. This book tells the the story of a long-ignored team at the close of the 19th century, whose Hall of Famer second baseman Sol White was but one of their best players.

Mitch Lutzke was an award-winning radio reporter before beginning his second career as a high school history teacher and coach in Michigan. He has had history themed articles published in newspapers, magazines, web pages and with SABR. He lives in Williamston, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. A Baseball Crazy Town

2. Browne Out

3. Two Dreamers

4. The Boys Are Back in Town

5. It Had to Be You

6. The Cracker Jack Team

7. Reds and Gold Bugs

8. Giants and Demons

9. Umpires and June Bugs

10. Till Death Do Us Part

11. The Tumbleweed

12. And Then There Was One

13. The Second Season

14. The First Championship Series

15. Sinister Legislation

16. Hey, Don’t Drink the Lemonade

17. Here Come the Giants

18. Lima Northern

19. The Homeless Season

20. Losing Things

21. Large Crowds and the White Giant

22. A War of Words

23. The Last Summer

24. Steel Away

Epilogue

PFG Master Roster

Statistics

1896 Championship Series Scores

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	30 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-7165-6 / 1476671656
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7165-9 / 9781476671659
Zustand	Neuware