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Informationen zum Autor James E. Brunson III is an art historian who specializes in American Modernism. His work has been published in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. A practicing artist who specializes in watercolor painting, he currently teaches visual culture at Northern Illinois University. Klappentext This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrounding black baseball. Zusammenfassung From contemporary postbellum articles! illustrations! photographs and woodcuts! a unique image of the black athlete emerges! one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. This work examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and the popular press. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Dust from Many Diamonds: Trauma, Memory, and the Colored Championship 2. "Fifteenth-Amendment Club-Slingers": Colored Base Ball and the St. Louis Sporting Fraternity, 1875-1877 3. Dudes, Macks, Land Ladies, Waiters, Tonsorialists, and Aesthetes: The Colored Sporting Fraternity 4. Men of Mark and Marked Men: Black Baseball Representation 5. "A Mirthful Spectacle": Representing Negro Comedy or Black Aesthetic Style 6. Genuine Colored Artists: Black Legs, Black Stockings, and Colored Baseball, 1877-1888 Coda: A Glance Over the Diamond Fields of the Continent Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
