Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933 - 1962; Expanded Version
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The verdict is in! Whatever the deficiencies of the black baseball leagues as business enterprises and a source for reliable statistics, is presented in this expanded edition of the East-West All-Star game. This is the only publication ever published about Black America's largest attended sporting event.
Bigger than the World Series. The stage where Black baseball proved its supremacy. From 1933 to 1962, the annual East-West All-Star Game in Chicago was the premier event in Black sports. Drawing regular crowds of over 50,000 fans to Comiskey Park, this midsummer classic outdrew the Major League equivalent, serving as a masterclass in elite athleticism, cultural celebration, and economic independence that mainstream media and white major league owners could not ignore. Award-winning historian Larry Lester delivers the definitive, year-by-year almanac of this national showcase. Drawing from contemporaneous accounts in the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and the Afro-American, this 500+ page scholarly work reconstructs play-by-plays, financial sheets, official voting results, and authentic individual batting and pitching statistics for icons like Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Satchel Paige. Winner of the prestigious the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Outstanding Book Award, this is an absolute necessity for every serious sports library. |
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2025 NABJ's Outstanding Book Award
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