Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.

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Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.

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Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

by Jeffrey Michael Laing
Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional
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Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

Bud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional

by Jeffrey Michael Laing

Overview

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476603773
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 04/17/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 236
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

The late Jeffrey Michael Laing was a retired English teacher. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The late Jeffrey Michael Laing was a retired English teacher. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: Grand Island, Nebraska, May 1892—Bud Fowler’s Fight
One—The Rise of Baseball in the Nineteenth Century
Two—The Color Line: Segregation and Racism in Nineteenth Century Baseball
Three—An African American in Organized Baseball (1878–1886)
Four—The Color Line Emerges (1887–1889)
Five—Shut Out: The Independent Years (1890–1899)
Six—A Boys’ Game and a Gentleman’s Agreement: The Tensions Within Nineteenth Century Baseball
Seven—Bud Fowler, Black Baseball Entrepreneur (1883–1913)
Eight—Bud Fowler’s Legacy
Epilogue: Frankfort, New York, July 1987—Bud Fowler Day
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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