The Chicago American Giants

by Paul Debono

Book Overview

In 1886, a semipro team known as the Union Baseball Club was founded in Chicago. Under the leadership of Frank Leland, this team of black players worked its way to the top of Chicago's otherwise all-white semipro city league. In 1902, Leland recruited a talented young pitcher from Texas, Rube Foster, who soon established himself as one of the game's outstanding players, seized the leadership of the Union Baseball Club and founded the Chicago American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786466081
• ISBN13: 9780786466085
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher