1909 Leland Giant Negro League Baseball Broadside.- Andrew Rube Foster - Rare!

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A turn of the century 1909 Negro Leagues
baseball broadside.
Andrew "Rube" Foster
Extraordinary relic is believed to be the earliest Negro League broadside to survive to this day, announcing an April 21, 1909 meeting between the famed " Leland Giants of Chicago" and a team of students from Samuel Houston Collage, a coeducational school of blacks in Austin, Texas founded in 1876 with the assistants from the Freedmen's Aid Society. The Leland Giants are best remembered for the leadership of Andrew "Rube" Foster, who founded the Negro National League in 1920. Thrillingly, the broadside mentions this Hall Of Fame pioneer specially, stating "Andrew Foster, the greatest Negro Pitcher in the world will pitch for the Giants."
The broadside is a miracle of survival, and stands as one of the earliest Negro League artifacts of any sort to celebrate its centennial. The thin paper sign measures 6 x 9 in size and surely owes its existence today to its size, which allowed it to be folded then filed in the pages of a book and forgotten for ages. Just a small chip at the upper edge must be noted in terms of condition, as the broadside otherwise remains entirely free of tearing, chipping or staining. This is a true
1/1 and probably the only one in existence.
At the early juncture in the development of "colored baseball," barnstorming was the sole means of survival--no technical "League" existed.
Andrew Rube Foster considered by historians to have been the best African-American pitcher of the decade of the 1900's also founded and managed the Chicago American Giants, one of the most successful black baseball teams of the pre-integration era. Most notably, he organized the Negro National League, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers, witch operated from 1920 to 1931. He is known as the 'father of Black Baseball.
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