Robert Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195076370
- eISBN:
- 9780199853786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195076370.003.0023
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Social inequality was the general consensus of the nation during the last decade of the 19th century. Organized baseball was no different, and segregation seems to be the way that things are going. ...
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Social inequality was the general consensus of the nation during the last decade of the 19th century. Organized baseball was no different, and segregation seems to be the way that things are going. The chapter also tells about John J. McGraw and his vision of negroes playing alongside whites. One controversial move was when he introduced Charlie Grant as a Cherokee named “Tokohama” to hide his race but the disguise was soon blown. This chapter also names the five black professional teams of that time: The Genuine Cuban Giants; the Cuban X Giants of New York; the Red Stockings of Norfolk, Virginia; the Chicago Unions; and the Columbia Giants of Chicago. Up to the early 1900s, Negro baseball experienced a great expansion and was no longer treated as novelties like they were in the 1890s.Less
Social inequality was the general consensus of the nation during the last decade of the 19th century. Organized baseball was no different, and segregation seems to be the way that things are going. The chapter also tells about John J. McGraw and his vision of negroes playing alongside whites. One controversial move was when he introduced Charlie Grant as a Cherokee named “Tokohama” to hide his race but the disguise was soon blown. This chapter also names the five black professional teams of that time: The Genuine Cuban Giants; the Cuban X Giants of New York; the Red Stockings of Norfolk, Virginia; the Chicago Unions; and the Columbia Giants of Chicago. Up to the early 1900s, Negro baseball experienced a great expansion and was no longer treated as novelties like they were in the 1890s.
Robert Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195076370
- eISBN:
- 9780199853786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195076370.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses the earliest black professional teams, the most famous of which being the Cuban Giants, whose name was even plagiarized by another team named Cuban X Giants. Some say that the ...
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This chapter discusses the earliest black professional teams, the most famous of which being the Cuban Giants, whose name was even plagiarized by another team named Cuban X Giants. Some say that the Cuban Giants were the first salaried Negro team when it was formed in 1885 but a perusal of earlier publications show that even as early as 1882, other Negro baseball clubs were being treated as professionals including the Black Stockings of St. Louis, the Mutuals of Philadelphia, and the Atlantics of Baltimore. The chapter discusses the early beginnings of the Cuban Giants and how they got such a name. The chapter also touches on the events that happened until the end of the 1890s and the hope for equal treatment of blacks.Less
This chapter discusses the earliest black professional teams, the most famous of which being the Cuban Giants, whose name was even plagiarized by another team named Cuban X Giants. Some say that the Cuban Giants were the first salaried Negro team when it was formed in 1885 but a perusal of earlier publications show that even as early as 1882, other Negro baseball clubs were being treated as professionals including the Black Stockings of St. Louis, the Mutuals of Philadelphia, and the Atlantics of Baltimore. The chapter discusses the early beginnings of the Cuban Giants and how they got such a name. The chapter also touches on the events that happened until the end of the 1890s and the hope for equal treatment of blacks.
