The Early Image of Black Baseball : Race and Representation in the Popular Press, 1871-1890
Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Introduction 5 1. Dust from Many Diamonds: Trauma, Memory, and the Colored Championship 13 2. "Fifteenth-Amendment Club-Slingers": Colored Base Ball and the St. Louis Sporting Fraternity, 1875-1877 46 3. Dudes, Macks, Land Ladies, Waiters, Tonsorialists, and Aesthetes: The Colored Sporting Fraternity 68 4. Men of Mark and Marked Men: Black Baseball Representation 105 5. "A Mirthful Spectacle": Representing Negro Comedy or Black Aesthetic Style 128 6. Genuine Colored Artists: Black Legs, Black Stockings, and Colored Baseball, 1877-1888 157 Coda: A Glance Over the Diamond Fields of the Continent 181 Chapter Notes 199 Bibliography 215 Index 219.