Bud Fowler

Baseball's First Black Professional

Nonfiction, Sports, Baseball, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies
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Author: Jeffrey Michael Laing ISBN: 9781476603773
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: April 17, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jeffrey Michael Laing
ISBN: 9781476603773
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: April 17, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (né 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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This is the biography of Bud Fowler (né 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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