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Paul Browne of Carbondale had an article published in the most recent edition of “Black Ball: A Negro League Journal,” a nationally circulating peer reviewed journal.
Browne’s article, “You Can’t Tell the Players,” covers pre-Negro League teams the Cuban Giants and the Gorhams, and their play during the 1891 season.
“While the teams were independently owned,” Browne explains, “the constant switching of players between teams during that season made it hard to ‘tell’ — or know — who the players were....even with a score card!”
According to the author, the Cuban Giants are believed to be the first salaried black team, and the Gorhams team was formed shortly after the Cubans. Sol White, an early Negro League player and baseball historian, rated the players of the Cuban Giants and Gorhams among the greatest players of their era, black or white. “One of these players, Frank Grant, is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame,” Browne writes, “and at least one other, Clarence Williams, probably should be. Both teams played frequently in Pennsylvania and the Cuban Giants played games in Carbondale, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre staring in the mid-1880s.
Browne has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for many years, and his biographies of Carbondale natives Padney Gillespie and Edward Kennedy, among other major league figures, can be found at http://sabr.org/bioproject. Browne, along with Attorney Fred Moase, assisted Robert Powell, PhD, in presenting special exhibit, “Historic Baseball Memorabilia,” at the Carbondale Historical Society Museum in 2009.
Browne has recently contributed a chapter to the upcoming book, “Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century,” being complied by SABR’s Nineteenth Century Committee. He is also working on a book on the Pennsylvania state leagues of the 1880s and 1890s with the publisher McFarland & Company, Inc. “Black Ball” can be purchased at http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/blackball.html; look for Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2011.
Browne is the director of the Carbondale Technology Transfer Center, and has served as Carbondale’s City Manager.
Paul Browne of Carbondale had an article published in the most recent edition of “Black Ball: A Negro League Journal,” a nationally circulating peer reviewed journal.
Browne’s article, “You Can’t Tell the Players,” covers pre-Negro League teams the Cuban Giants and the Gorhams, and their play during the 1891 season.
“While the teams were independently owned,” Browne explains, “the constant switching of players between teams during that season made it hard to ‘tell’ — or know — who the players were....even with a score card!”
According to the author, the Cuban Giants are believed to be the first salaried black team, and the Gorhams team was formed shortly after the Cubans. Sol White, an early Negro League player and baseball historian, rated the players of the Cuban Giants and Gorhams among the greatest players of their era, black or white. “One of these players, Frank Grant, is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame,” Browne writes, “and at least one other, Clarence Williams, probably should be. Both teams played frequently in Pennsylvania and the Cuban Giants played games in Carbondale, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre staring in the mid-1880s.
Browne has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for many years, and his biographies of Carbondale natives Padney Gillespie and Edward Kennedy, among other major league figures, can be found at http://sabr.org/bioproject. Browne, along with Attorney Fred Moase, assisted Robert Powell, PhD, in presenting special exhibit, “Historic Baseball Memorabilia,” at the Carbondale Historical Society Museum in 2009.
Browne has recently contributed a chapter to the upcoming book, “Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century,” being complied by SABR’s Nineteenth Century Committee. He is also working on a book on the Pennsylvania state leagues of the 1880s and 1890s with the publisher McFarland & Company, Inc. “Black Ball” can be purchased at http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/blackball.html; look for Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2011.
Browne is the director of the Carbondale Technology Transfer Center, and has served as Carbondale’s City Manager.
