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Black Ball and the Boardwalk

James E. Overmyer
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      The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach - an Atlantic City politician running for mayor - as a way to keep his name before the city's black community. The Giants were immediately successful, and soon played the best semi-professional teams in their region, as well as the top black teams from the East and Midwest. They entered the first Negro league on the East Coast in 1923, and won the league championship twice before the decade ended. This book chronicles the Giants' pivotal role in the development of black baseball in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, and the careers of the men who made it possible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: James E. Overmyer EAN: 9780786472376 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-11-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 177 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      New Jersey, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Sports teams and clubs, History of sport, Baseball

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      SABR member, James E. Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily African-American baseball. He lives in Lenox, Massachusetts.
      The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach - an Atlantic City politician running for mayor - as a way to keep his name before the city's black community. The Giants were immediately successful, and soon played the best semi-professional teams in their region, as well as the top black teams from the East and Midwest. They entered the first Negro league on the East Coast in 1923, and won the league championship twice before the decade ended. This book chronicles the Giants' pivotal role in the development of black baseball in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, and the careers of the men who made it possible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: James E. Overmyer EAN: 9780786472376 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-11-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 177 cm SPINE:

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      New Jersey, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Sports teams and clubs, History of sport, Baseball

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      SABR member, James E. Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily African-American baseball. He lives in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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