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Black History ➔ Sport Stockings (Reproduction)
Identifier:
2002.44.5a-bDescription:
These stockings are a reproduction of baseball stockings from the Page Fence Giants which was a negro baseball team that operated from 1895 to 1898. The team was based in Adrain, Michigan and was named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company. It was sponsored by the company's founder J. Wallace Page.Date:
2001Materials:
WoolDimensions:
24" h 3.5" wCurrent Location Status:
In StorageCollection Tier:
Tier 2Source:
Museum PurchaseExhibit/Program:
Leagues of Their Own (2003)Related Entities:
K & P Weaver, LLC (creator)Alternate names: K and P Weaver, LLC
K & P Weaver is a supplier and manufacturer of athletic uniforms from the 19th and 20th century. K & P Weaver, LLC (sold by)
Alternate names: K and P Weaver, LLC
K & P Weaver is a supplier and manufacturer of athletic uniforms from the 19th and 20th century. Page Fence Giants (is related to)
The Page Fence Giants were one of the top black baseball teams in the 1890s. They were based in Adrain, MI and were sponsored by J. Wallace Page. The Page Fence Giants played their first game in 1895 and they went 118-36-2. The 1898 tour was the club's last and many of the players went to the Columbia Giants the following year.
For more information, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Fence_Giants Negro League Baseball (is related to)
Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues".
In the late 19th century the baseball color line developed in professional baseball, excluding African Americans from league play. In 1885, the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance. After several decades of mostly independent play by a variety of teams, in 1920 the first Negro National League was formed and ultimately seven major leagues existed at various times over the next thirty years. After integration, the quality of the Negro leagues slowly deteriorated and the Negro American League of 1951 is generally considered the last major league season. The last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated as a humorous sideshow rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. (Source: Wikipedia)
