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Author_James E. Brunson
black baseball
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Product details
- ISBN 9780786442065
- Weight: 413g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2009
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrounding black baseball.
James E. Brunson III is an art historian who specializes in American Modernism. His work has been published in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. A practicing artist who specializes in watercolor painting, he currently teaches visual culture at Northern Illinois University.
