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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.
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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