Baseball Players
by Maria Coulson
Title
Baseball Players
Artist
Maria Coulson
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Colorized photo from 1900 black and white. Original title "African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia."
Professional African-American teams and short-lived "negro leagues" formed in the late 1800s. Some interracial games occurred when major league white teams played black teams in barnstorming (exhibition) games. However, during the early 1900s, blacks were not allowed to play on white professional teams in the United States.
After 1947, when major league teams began integrating, the Negro League teams lost many of their best players, and the League folded entirely in 1960. In 1990, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened in Kansas City, Missouri.
For information about other particulars of the photo see the blog for October 21,2015. http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/maria-coulson.html?tab=blog
Featured in the following Fine Art America groups:
Photograph Manipulation
People
Digital Magic
50 Years or Older - Artwork Renewed
Proceeds from the sale of this photograph goes to help orphaned and abandoned children in Colombia South America.
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October 21st, 2015
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JOHN TELFER
Maria, Fantastic find and detailed colorization of this image, fantastic details in the expressions of the ballplayers and even the stones in the building they are leaning up against. Great historical piece I have plenty of old black and white of popular ball players and this has given me some ideas. Great work LF