Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: The Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues

by Michael E. Lomax

Book Overview

As the companion volume to Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary, Lomax's new book continues to chronicle the history of black baseball in the United States. The first volume traced the development of baseball from an exercise in community building among African Americans in the pre-Civil War era to a commercialized amusement and a rare and lucrative opportunity for entrepreneurship within the black community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610394
• ISBN13: 9780815610397
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"