Unsung Heroes In Chicago History: Rube Foster, ‘Father Of Black Baseball’
In the early 1900s, before integration, Chicagoan Andrew “Rube” Foster was a key player and manager in the Negro leagues.
By Meha Ahmad
Unsung Heroes In Chicago History: Rube Foster, ‘Father Of Black Baseball’
In the early 1900s, before integration, Chicagoan Andrew “Rube” Foster was a key player and manager in the Negro leagues.
By Meha Ahmad
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Throughout Black History Month, Reset will highlight a few of the unsung heroes in Chicago’s history. We start with Andrew “Rube” Foster, the so-called “Father of Black Baseball” and manager of the Chicago Union Giants.
GUEST: Larry Lester, baseball historian and author of Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball’s Greatest Visionary