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The Page Fence Giants - A History of Black Baseball's Pioneering Champions (Paperback)
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The Page Fence Giants - A History of Black Baseball's Pioneering Champions (Paperback)
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This is the first book on the all-star championship black baseball
team, the Page Fence Giants, who graced the diamond in the 1890s.
The team was formed through a unique business partnership between
black and white baseball boosters, with the support of an Adrian,
Michigan fencing company. This book examines how a dynamic baseball
team was founded in a small Michigan community and the cultural
challenges the players, owners and boosters encountered during the
team's successful four-year run. This book is a much broader than
simple game recaps, but rather an examination of our country as it
stood at the close of the 19th Century. The era's expanding Jim
Crow sentiment blocked the Giants' best players from the reaching
the major leagues. Despite the societal roadblock, one of the
Giants has been selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and
he was nowhere near their best player. This book's goal is to tell
a fascinating tale about long ignored star ball players on a
long-ignored team, whose story offered a glimpse of American at a
time when baseball integration was phased out until the debut of
Jackie Robinson in 1947.
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