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Author Lomax, Michael E., author.

Title Black baseball entrepreneurs, 1902-1931 : the Negro national and Eastern Colored leagues / Michael E. Lomax
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 497 pages) : illustrations
Series Sports and entertainment
Sports and entertainment.
Contents Part one. Independent ball, 1902-1920. Continuity and change ; Black professional baseball's growth and expansion, 1906-1907 ; Striving for professionalism ; Years of transition, 1911-1913 ; Black baseball and the separate black economy ; The war years: toward the rise of the negro leagues -- Part two. The rise and fall of the Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues, 1920-1931. Pitfalls of baseball: the rise of the Negro National League ; Black baseball war: the rise of the Eastern Colored League ; Pursuing peace ; Caught in a rundown ; Before the fall ; The end of an era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-475) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Negro National League.
Eastern Colored League (Baseball league)
SUBJECT Eastern Colored League (Baseball league) fast
Negro National League fast
Subject African American baseball team owners -- History -- 20th century
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African American business enterprises -- History -- 20th century
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
African American baseball team owners
African American business enterprises
Baseball
Entrepreneurship
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815652823
0815652828