1934 The Chatham Coloured All-stars Barrier-breaking Year

Winner Of The 2024 Speakers Book Awardthe True Story Of The First Black Team To Win An Ontario Baseball Amateur Association Championship. The Pride Of Chathams East End, The Coloured All-stars Broke The Colour Barrier In Baseball More Than A Decade Before Jackie Robinson Did The Same In The Major Leagues. Fielding A Team Of The Best Black Baseball Players From Across Southwestern Ontario And Michigan, Theirs Is A Story That Could Only Have Happened In This Particular Time And Place: During The Depths Of The Great Depression, In A Small Industrial Town A Short Distance From The American Border, Home To One Of The Most Vibrant Black Communities In Canada.drawing Heavily On Scrapbooks, Newspaper Accounts, And Oral Histories From Members Of The Team And Their Families, 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-stars Barrier-breaking Year Shines A Light On A Largely Overlooked Chapter Of Black Baseball.