Feeney, Ryan.
Biographical notes:
Thomas Fitzgerald started a newspaper in Philadelphia called the City Item in 1847. As editor of the newspaper, Fitzgerald was aggressive in all that related to race equality. He was a sports fan who in 1860 helped to organize the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club and became it's president, a position which he held for five years. He was elected president of the National Association of Base Ball Players in 1862.
From the description of The power of one : typescript, [2001?] : Thomas Fitzgerald and the origins of interracial baseball / by Ryan Feeney. [2001?] (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 49318199
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Subjects:
- African American baseball players
- Baseball
- Discrimination in sports
- Newspaper editors
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- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia (as recorded)
