Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs by Lester, Larry

Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786495573)

Vendor: Larry Lester
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs by Lester, Larry

Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs

$39.95
Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs by Lester, Larry

Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Larry Lester
ISBN-10: 078649557X
ISBN-13: 9780786495573
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2014
Pages: 261
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.99h x 6.91w x 0.68d
By Larry Lester
By Larry Lester
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Noted Negro League historian Larry Lester is the author of eight books and contributor to more then 175 books, theses, and articles on black sports history. He is a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum co-founder and has long served as chairman of the SABR Negro Leagues Committee. Since 1998, he has organized the annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, the only scholarly gathering devoted to the history of black baseball. Lester was a 2016 recipient of SABR's Henry Chadwick Award, honoring baseball's greatest researchers, and a year later received the Bob Davids Award, SABR's highest honor. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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