Black baseball entrepreneurs, 1902-1931 : the Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues / Michael E. Lomax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomax, Michael E., author.

Series:

Sports and entertainment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American baseball team owners--History--20th century.

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Entrepreneurship.

History.

African American business enterprises.

African American baseball team owners.

United States.

African American business enterprises--History--20th century.

Entrepreneurship--United States--History--20th century.

Negro National League.

Eastern Colored League (Baseball league).

Physical Description:

xix, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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. In this book, Lomax takes a closer look at the marketing and promotion of the Negro Leagues by black baseball magnates. He explores how race influenced black baseball's institutional development and shaped the business relationship with white clubs and managers. Lomax analyzes the decisions that black baseball magnates made to insulate themselves from outside influences. He explains how this insulation may have distorted their perceptions and ultimately led to the Negro Leagues' demise. The collapse of the Negro Leagues by 1931 was, Lomax argues, "a dream deferred in the overall African American pursuit for freedom and self-determination." Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-475) and index.

ISBN:

9780815633631

0815633637

9780815610397

0815610394

OCLC:

881387351