Tag: Negro league baseball
Call for Participants | Daniel Nathan: “The Negro League Baseball Renaissance: Prelude to a Conversation” | Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture. Webinar on Zoom, Friday April 12, 2024
This talk examines some of the multifaceted aspects of the Negro league baseball renaissance. It documents the Negro league revival, which has been expressed in myriad, sometimes surprising forms, and considers some of its cultural and historical sources. My comments, however, are just a prelude to a public conversation I want to have with people attending the Colloquium. What do people think it means that so many people are now (relatively) knowledgeable about long forgotten or neglected Black baseball teams and players?
