Jack Johnson and the “Fight of the Century”
byBy the turn of the century, the color line in sports was firmly in place, but the charismatic and controversial Jack Johnson smashed this…
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The Edwardian Sportswoman
byIn the first volume of The Sportswoman’s Library (1898), editor Frances Slaughter states: “It is during the last ten years that women have come…
Only the Ball Was White: African-Americans & Baseball in the Gilded Age
byLong before Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron, African-Americans played a varied and wide role in the history of baseball. Though black ballplayers were forced…