Baseball's First Colored World Series (eBook)

The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs

Larry Lester (Autor)

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261 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7864-8736-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1924, after the Hilldale Giants captured the league crown in the new Eastern Colored League and the Kansas City Monarchs won out in the four-year-old Negro National League, the two teams met in a best-of-nine series for the world championship. But a 13-inning tie in Game 4 and alternating wins throughout would force a tenth and deciding game, making it the longest World Series-black or white-in the modern era. This heavily illustrated volume provides a comprehensive account of the first championship series played between teams from two all-black professional leagues. It provides commentary, records, and full statistics for each club's regular season performance, along with biographical profiles of the players. Coverage also includes position-by-position comparisons of the Series combatants; a breakdown of the attendance, gate receipts, and team shares; game-by-game summaries; comments from the players; and complete statistics-including pitcher-batter matchups-for both teams.

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-7864-8736-4 / 0786487364
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-8736-3 / 9780786487363