The earliest history of baseball in black America surfaces not just in the pages of the mainstream newspapers of the day—it also survives in black religious publications. A supplement to the three volumes of Black Baseball, 1858–1900, this book elaborates on the exploration of blackball’s complex origins with six essays covering National Emblems, Representation, and Blackball, 1866–1871; The Black Championship, Reconstruction, and Its Aftermath, 1855–1899; The Lost World of Albany (NY)’s Young Bachelor Base Ball Club, 1866–1877; Blackball, Black Women and Resorts of Pleasure, 1866–1891; The Henson (Lone Star) Base Ball Club, 1858–1892; and Blackball in Chattanooga (TN), 1876–1900. Rosters, umpire lists and team profiles provide new material. Appendices give a chronology of state, regional and national championship games.

James E. Brunson III is an art historian who specializes in American Modernism. His work has been published in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. A practicing artist who specializes in watercolor painting, he currently teaches visual culture at Northern Illinois University.

James E. Brunson III
Format: softcover (8.5 x 11 in 3 vols.)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2022
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9022-3
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4803-3
Imprint: McFarland