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Page Fence Giants

Mitch Lutzke
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      This is the first book on the all-star championship black baseball team, the Page Fence Giants, who graced the diamond in the 1890s. The team was formed through a unique business partnership between black and white baseball boosters, with the support of an Adrian, Michigan fencing company. This book examines how a dynamic baseball team was founded in a small Michigan community and the cultural challenges the players, owners and boosters encountered during the team’s successful four-year run. This book is a much broader than simple game recaps, but rather an examination of our country as it stood at the close of the 19th Century. The era’s expanding Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Giants’ best players from the reaching the major leagues. Despite the societal roadblock, one of the Giants has been selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and he was nowhere near their best player. This book’s goal is to tell a fascinating tale about long ignored star ball players on a long-ignored team, whose story offered a glimpse of American at a time when baseball integration was phased out until the debut of Jackie Robinson in 1947.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Mitch Lutzke EAN: 9781476671659 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 480 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-04-20 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Michigan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ethnic studies, Sports teams and clubs, History of sport, Baseball

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      Mitch Lutzke was an award-winning radio reporter before beginning his second career as a high school history teacher and coach in Michigan. He has had history themed articles published in newspapers, magazines, web pages and with SABR. He lives in Williamston, Michigan.
      This is the first book on the all-star championship black baseball team, the Page Fence Giants, who graced the diamond in the 1890s. The team was formed through a unique business partnership between black and white baseball boosters, with the support of an Adrian, Michigan fencing company. This book examines how a dynamic baseball team was founded in a small Michigan community and the cultural challenges the players, owners and boosters encountered during the team’s successful four-year run. This book is a much broader than simple game recaps, but rather an examination of our country as it stood at the close of the 19th Century. The era’s expanding Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Giants’ best players from the reaching the major leagues. Despite the societal roadblock, one of the Giants has been selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and he was nowhere near their best player. This book’s goal is to tell a fascinating tale about long ignored star ball players on a long-ignored team, whose story offered a glimpse of American at a time when baseball integration was phased out until the debut of Jackie Robinson in 1947.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Mitch Lutzke EAN: 9781476671659 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 480 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-04-20 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

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      Michigan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ethnic studies, Sports teams and clubs, History of sport, Baseball

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      Mitch Lutzke was an award-winning radio reporter before beginning his second career as a high school history teacher and coach in Michigan. He has had history themed articles published in newspapers, magazines, web pages and with SABR. He lives in Williamston, Michigan.

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