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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.
The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable
perspective on several major themes in modern African American
history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent
struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the
later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a
critical component in the separate economy catering to black
consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most
black businesses struggled to survive from year to year,
professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades,
representing a major achievement in black enterprise and
institution building.
"Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution"
presents the extraordinary history of a great African American
achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its
golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during
the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited
amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually
every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league
city. He then conducted interviews with former players and
scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through
his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the
institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the
players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the
league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight
into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need
for separate institutions.
ROY CAMPANELLA was the backbone of the great Brooklyn Dodgers teams
of the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside such other Hall of Famers as
Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider. An outstanding defensive catcher
and a powerful slugger, Campy won the National League MVP Award
three times. But everything changed on a rainy January night in
1958 when Campy's car skidded off the road and he was left
paralyzed below the neck. For the second time in his life, Roy
Campanella would become a pioneer, this time off the field. Neil
Lanctot's "Campy "is the magnificent, authoritative biography of
this exuberant, gifted athlete.
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