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- Title
Bud Fowler in Santa Fe (1888) The Myth of the West for 19th Century Baseball's First African American Baseballist.
- Authors
Laing, Jeff
- Abstract
In 1887-1888, African American Bud Fowler went from starring in the International Association to playing in the Class C Central Interstate League to catching on with an unaligned, first year league in the New Mexico Territory. Fowler's trek westward in search of an opportunity in integrated baseball reflected the temper of the times in the late nineteenth century in which African Americans were marginalized and eventually erased from player rosters in professional baseball. Realizing that African Americans needed to take entrepreneurial control of their game, Fowler began to shape his own public relations image, to seek investment for black baseball clubs, and to add entertainment values at the ballpark that went beyond the game itself.
- Subjects
NEW Mexico; FOWLER, Bud, 1858-1913; AFRICAN American baseball players; HISTORY of baseball; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; RACE discrimination in sports; NEW Mexico state history, 1848-
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.5.2.52