Andrew Rube Foster : scrapbook, 1910-1924 1910-1981

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Andrew Rube Foster : scrapbook, 1910-1924 1910-1981

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A scrapbook of articles focusing on the career of Andrew Rube Foster, created by his son Earl M. Foster, primarily from the Chicago Defender. A few photographs and postcards are included. Of note are play-by-play game accounts from 1921; a series of articles by Foster, during his tenure as the President of the Negro National League, regarding what baseball needs to do to succeed. There is a 1930 obituary, a 1976 article relating to a tribute and an induction article from 1981.

1 scrapbook ( 292mm x 274mm x 74mm )

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SNAC Resource ID: 6820310

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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Foster, Rube, 1879-1930

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Negro National League

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Chicago American Giants (Baseball team)

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Foster, Earl M.

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Rube Foster pitched for the following teams in the Negro leagues: Philadelphia Giants (1904-1906), Chicago Leland Giants (1908, 1910, 1910 as player-manager), and the Chicago American Giants (1911, 1913-1915, 1917-1918 as player-manager). During his playing career, Foster managed the American Giants (1912, 1916). After his playing career, Foster managed the American Giants (1919-1926) and in 1920 organized the Negro National League. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981...