BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE NATIONAL PASTIME: THE RISE OF SEMIPROFESSIONAL BASEBALL IN BLACK CHICAGO, 1890-1915. |
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Lomax, Michael E.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Journal of Sport History
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25(1)p.43-64
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African American
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In the late 19th century, black entrepreneurs in Chicago attempted to establish baseball as a profitable business, thus countering both discrimination and the exclusion of AfricanAmericans from places of amusement. Obstacles included scarcity of credit and internal division among organizers. Though African-American baseball owners did not promote theirclubs exclusively to their own race, they began marketing to the growing black population migrating from the South. Among Chicago s black baseball entrepreneurs, Andrew Rube Foster (1879-1930) emerged as the most prominent. He operated his all-black American Giants as a segregated enterprise, but he maintained business contacts with white ownersof semiprofessional teams.
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