The rest of the title: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball. A good read with a lot of interesting history of the Negro Leagues. It is focused on Washington DC and the relationship with the owner of the Senators Griffith and the Negro Leagues, especially the Homestead Grays. The Grays were started and had home games in Pittsburgh but the owner was able to lease open dates in DC where there was a large African American population and they were able to get more fans into these games--making money for both the Grays and the Griffiths. This success actually caused both of these owners to not push for integration into MLB because they would lose out. I am not sure Cum Posey--owner of Grays and Griffith--owner of Senators really influenced integration that much. I think MLB commissioner Landis and a handful of owners were the bigger issue but this book brought out a lot of the inside issues going on at the time. A really good read about an interesting time in baseball.
There were no copies in system so I posted it right away and it has already been requested so I will get it mailed off later this week.
No comments:
Post a Comment