The Page Fence Giants: A History of Black Baseball's Pioneering Champions by Mitch Lutzke
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Winner of the 2019 Michigan Notable Book Award by the Library of Michigan.
Winner of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) "Robert Peterson Recognition Award" from the Jerry Malloy Negro Baseball Conference Committee.
The Page Fence Giants was an all-star black baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan from 1895-98 and organized by National Baseball Hall of Famer inductee, Bud Fowler.
The men played against teams from local communities, along with games against minor and major league squads and other black baseball nines. In 1896 the Giants won the Black Baseball Championship series against the Cuban X Giants.
This book begins with how baseball crazy Adrian, Michigan becomes the Giants' home and follows them through their four years on the diamond across the Midwest and Canada. The book also examines the social structure in the United States in this era, as Jim Crow law was beginning to spread across the country. Despite their winning ways, a championship, and a roster which includes one member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, along with the first black man to play professional baseball, no book has ever been written about this all-star team-until now.
The book is published by McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. www.mcfarlandpub.com
Winner of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) "Robert Peterson Recognition Award" from the Jerry Malloy Negro Baseball Conference Committee.
The Page Fence Giants was an all-star black baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan from 1895-98 and organized by National Baseball Hall of Famer inductee, Bud Fowler.
The men played against teams from local communities, along with games against minor and major league squads and other black baseball nines. In 1896 the Giants won the Black Baseball Championship series against the Cuban X Giants.
This book begins with how baseball crazy Adrian, Michigan becomes the Giants' home and follows them through their four years on the diamond across the Midwest and Canada. The book also examines the social structure in the United States in this era, as Jim Crow law was beginning to spread across the country. Despite their winning ways, a championship, and a roster which includes one member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, along with the first black man to play professional baseball, no book has ever been written about this all-star team-until now.
The book is published by McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. www.mcfarlandpub.com
