Black Baseball Players in Canada: A Biographical Dictionary, 1881-1960

by Barry Swanton, Jay-Dell Mah

Overview

In an era when black baseball players had limited playing prospects in the United States, they found a more hospitable and level playing field in Canada. The entries in this dictionary contain biographical sketches, career highlights and statistics for hundreds of players, as well as information about their teams and leagues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786444687
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	08/24/2009
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Barry Swanton was a retired baseball coach and manager from Winnipeg, Canada. He was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame for his promotion of baseball and baseball history in that province. A former radio and television reporter, Jay-Dell Mah develops websites. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and previously served as the organization’s webmaster. His Attheplate.com has been on the web since the late 1990s.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tom Hawthorn     
Preface     
Introduction     

THE PLAYERS     

Bibliography     
Index