The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical
backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The
original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward
black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry
Bacharach - an Atlantic City politician running for mayor - as a
way to keep his name before the city's black community. The Giants
were immediately successful, and soon played the best
semi-professional teams in their region, as well as the top black
teams from the East and Midwest. They entered the first Negro
league on the East Coast in 1923, and won the league championship
twice before the decade ended. This book chronicles the Giants'
pivotal role in the development of black baseball in
Prohibition-era Atlantic City, and the careers of the men who made
it possible.
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