Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932

by Neil Lanctot

Overview

The Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, was the dominant team in black baseball during the 1920s. Their success came about largely through the efforts of Hilldale president and manager Edward Bolden. Bolden's professionalism and reputation for fair play were instrumental in his forming the Eastern Colored (EC) League in 1922. This absorbing story, highlighted with vivid photographs, chronicles the origins and development of black baseball.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815608653
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	06/18/2007
Series:	Sports and Entertainment
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Neil Lanctot is the author of the critically acclaimed Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. He has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, and several other journals and anthologies. He lives in West Chester, Pa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     iv
Introduction     1
Beginnings: Baseball in Philadelphia, 1860-1916     3
Professional Black Baseball Takes Off, 1895-1917     27
Hilldale and the Philadelphia Semipro Baseball Boom, 1918-1923     49
Foster, Bolden, and the NNL, 1919-1922     72
The Eastern Colored League at Its Peak, 1923-1924     95
Economic Downswing and a World Championship, 1925     122
The End of a Dream, 1926-1928     142
"A General Understanding": Organized Baseball and Black Professional Baseball, 1900-1930     164
A New Bolden and a New League, 1928-1929     187
End of a Team, End of an Era, 1930-1932     205
Attendance     231
Yearly Records: (Hilldale, Eastern Colored League, American Negro League, Easl-West League)     232
Rosters, 1910-1932     235
Notes     239
Bibliography     273
Index     283

Editorial Reviews

A study of . . . one of the best teams in the pioneer Eastern Colored League.

USA Baseball Weekly

A thorough history . . . goes beyond player profiles and anecdotes.

Dugout

a study of...one of the best teams in the pioneer Eastern Colored League

USA Today Baseball Weekly