The Coal Barons Played Cuban Giants: A History of Early Professional Baseball in Pennsylvania, 1886-1896

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The Pennsylvania state leagues of the 1880s and 1890s rank a few of the most interesting minor leagues in the history of baseball. The rules were changing, the world around baseball, particularly the economy, was once changing and things that would seem unimaginable in a later time were happening yearly. These leagues had not only black players but also wholly black teams. They had great major leaguers–on their way up but also at the way go into reverse. If truth be told, the greatest player of the age, surrounded by what would have been a major league all-star team only some years before, played in a Pennsylvania minor league for nearly a full season. The play was once exciting, the players were exciting and the owners, managers and league politics were continuously more interesting than the games.

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