Baseball's first colored world series; the 1924 meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs.0786426179 Baseball's first colored world series; the 1924 meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. . Lester, Larry. McFarland & Co. 2006 249 pages $45.00 Hardcover GV875 In 1924, the Hilldale Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs met in what was to be a best-of-nine series for the world championship. In this volume, Negro Leagues Negro leagues Associations of teams of black baseball players active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s. The principal leagues were the Negro National League, originally organized by Rube Foster in 1920, and the Negro American League, organized in 1937. historian Lester presents a detailed account of this first championship series between teams from two all-black professional leagues. Full statistics for each club's regular season performance and biographical bi·o·graph·i·cal also bi·o·graph·ic adj. 1. Containing, consisting of, or relating to the facts or events in a person's life. 2. Of or relating to biography as a literary form. profiles of the players are also provided. Archival photographs illustrate the volume. Lester served as research director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). for several years. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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