Frank Grant: The Life of a Black Baseball Pioneer

Widely considered the best black player of the 19th century, Hall-of-Famer Frank Grant challenged baseball's color barrier in the 1880s to play for all-white professional teams--two of which fought a legal battle for his services. This first full-length biography documents Grant's career highlights, including successful games against Major League teams and at-bats against Hall-of-Fame pitchers. Stories overlooked for more than a century are examined, including a falsified anecdote that obscured one of Grant's best games from history. New light is shed on the early years of the Cuban Giants, the first black pro ball club.

Author: Richard Bogovich
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 10/03/2022
Pages: 287
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781476684604
ISBN10: 147668460X
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
- History | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Richard Bogovich, a contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research's Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century (2012), works for the Wendland Utz law firm in Rochester, Minnesota.