Baltimore Elite Giants - Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball

The true story of the Baltimore Elite Giants.

About the author

Bob Luke is the author of Dean of Umpires: The Biography of Bill McGowan, 1896-1954 and The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues and the coauthor of Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops.

Summary

Based on interviews with former players and Baltimore residents, articles from the black press of the time, and archival documents, and illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, The Baltimore Elite Giants recounts a barrier-breaking team's successes, failures, and eventual demise.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Luke
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781421424309
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2430-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Baseball, Sportmannschaften und Vereine, Maryland