.." that they longed to be involved in.
The old ballfields are silent now," Howard writes on page 190, and some, you can't even tell there ever was a baseball diamond there. Some became housing units, and other baseball fields were turned back into what they were before they were playing fields - farmland.
Sadly," Howard writes on 190, "the ranks of the younger ballplayers have thinned over the past thirty-five years," and many of the great players he remembers have names like Robert "Red" Terrell, Isaiah "Zeke" Walker, Alfred Martin, David Johnson, "Big Red" Strother Jackson, Jr., Vance Brock, and others.
Howard quotes Kenny Diggs, who played with the Avon a's: "I played for semi-pro teams when I was in the Army in Oklahoma, and none of them could compare to this league (Inter-Co,...
") When Johnson defeated Jeffries, however, it unleashed white violence against blacks nationwide. "In Washington, D.C., the Washington Bee reported, 'White ruffians showed their teeth and attacked almost every colored person they saw upon the public streets'." Similar events occurred in New York City and tiny towns in the deep South. By the time Jackie Robinson left the Negro Leagues, the backlash was not nearly so pronounced. Arguably, the Negro Leagues kept
The National League was formed in 1876 and enabled spectators to observe touring athletes play the game. The first World Series was played between the National League and its rival, the American League, in 1903. The popularity of baseball allowed for the financing of large baseball fields such as Fenway Park, Shibe Park, and Wrigley Field (Sports and Leisure, 2011). This era also saw the rise of collegiate football,
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