Bud Fowler

Bud Fowler
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9780786472642
ISBN-13 : 0786472642
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Book Synopsis Bud Fowler by : Jeffrey Michael Laing

Download or read book Bud Fowler written by Jeffrey Michael Laing and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.


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