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Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants And Kansas City Monarchs

Product Description: In 1924, after the Hilldale Giants captured the league crown in the new Eastern Colored League and the Kansas City Monarchs won out in the four-year-old Negro National League, the two teams met in a best-of-nine series for the world championship...read more

By Larry Lester

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Hardcover:

9780786426171 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 'This heavily illustrated volume provides a comprehensive account of the first championship series played between teams from two all-black professional leagues.

Paperback:

9780786495573 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 8, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1924, after the Hilldale Giants captured the league crown in the new Eastern Colored League and the Kansas City Monarchs won out in the four-year-old Negro National League, the two teams met in a best-of-nine series for the world championship.

Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers With Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary

Product Description: Although Andrew "Rube" Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season...read more

By Larry Lester

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Paperback:

9780786439270 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 31, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Although Andrew "Rube" Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season.

Ruling over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars: True Tales of Breaking Barriers, Umpiring Baseball Legends, and Wild Adventures in the Negro Leagues

Product Description: The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over fifty years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America...read more

By Larry Lester (other contributor), Bob Motley, Byron Motley and Dionne Warwick (foreword by)

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9781613210598, titled "Ruling over Monarchs, Giants, & Stars: True Tales of Breaking Barriers, Umpiring Baseball Legends, and Wild Adventures in the Negro Leagues" | Sports Pub, March 8, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St.

Black Baseballs National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953

A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original. (view table of contents)

By Joe Black (foreword by) and Larry Lester

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Paperback:

9780803280007 | Bison Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen.

Black Baseball in Pittsburgh

Product Description: When the Negro National League was formed in Kansas City in 1920, a new chapter in America's sports history had begun. Black Baseball in Pittsburgh chronicles the history of the Negro League in the Steel City from the Homestead Grays in the 1910s to the great Pittsburgh Crawfords teams of the 1930s and through the 1950s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry Lester and Sammy J. Miller

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9780738505312 | Arcadia Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: When the Negro National League was formed in Kansas City in 1920, a new chapter in America's sports history had begun.

Black Baseball in Kansas City Mo