Baseball's First Colored World Series

Noted Negro League historian Larry Lester is the author of eight books and contributor to more then 175 books, theses, and articles on black sports history. He is a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum co-founder and has long served as chairman of the SABR Negro Leagues Committee. Since 1998, he has organized the annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, the only scholarly gathering devoted to the history of black baseball. Lester was a 2016 recipient of SABR’s Henry Chadwick Award, honoring baseball’s greatest researchers, and a year later received the Bob Davids Award, SABR’s highest honor. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Preface     



1. The Makings of the First Colored World Series     

2. The Race for the 1924 World Series Championship     

3. Scouting Reports     

4. The Ten Games     

5. The Series in Summary     

6. Greenbacks     



Appendices:

1: Program for the First Colored World Series     

2: Series Batting Order     

3: Game by Game Log     

4: Home and Away Splits, by Player and by Pitcher     

5: Player Performance Against League Competition, by Team     

6: Batter versus Pitcher Match-Ups During the World Series     


Index