Black Fives Basketball 30 PostCard Book Negro Mint Oliver~Dorsey~Briscoe~King~Isaacs~Cooper~Cole~Morehouse Start Price USD 30.99 Current Price USD 30.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Mays Landing, NJ See more about 'Black Fives Basketball 30 PostCard Book Negro Mint ' Description Are you ready for the upcoming Holidays & Celebrations, (YOU KNOW THEY'RE COMING!) Birthday, Anniversary, Bridal Shower, Bachelor Party, Engagement, or just giving a Surprise Gift? BLACK FIVES! A BOOK OF POSTCARDS! 30 INDIVIDUAL POSTCARDS! AFRICAN AMERICAN! BASKETBALL! 1904-1950!  MINT! FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE USA!   I will be on Vacation starting Tuesday 11/25 and returning on Monday 12/1.  I may or may not have access to a computer.  I 'expect' to be able to respond to questions via the eBay network, as well as emails in general.   I will ship out items from now, up to and including Monday, 11/24.  That is providing I receive payment prior to Monday, 11/24. I will resume responding to emails and questions when I return.  I will ship out all items within 3 days of my return.  Please check out my feedback for a level of comfort.  Please bid with confidence. You are bidding on a very nice PIECE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BASKETBALL HISTORY. The "THE BLACK FIVES!" This is a part of the "AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE!" This is a Soft~Cover Book of 30 POST CARDS! This is in "PERFECT/MINT" condition! SPECIFICS: POSTCARD BOOK: Measures about 6 7/8" X 4 3/4" X 3/8"; There are 30 POSTCARDS plus a couple of pages of narrative text; There are perforations very near the binding edge; Each post card is able to be removed for FRAMING. DATE: The copyright date on the inside cover is 2006. SOME OF THE NARRATIVE TEXT INSIDE: Black Fives, Inc. is dedicated to researching and preserving the history of pioneering all-black basketball teams that played from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, during a time when sports and life in America were harshly segregated-a period we call the Black Fives Era.  Through scholarly research, facilitation of archival preservation, trademark protection, thoughtful promotion, and educational initiatives, our goal is to bring the teams of the Black Fives Era back to life.  Why?  Because in the basketball family tree, this era is where our lineage started; those players are our on-court ancestors.  This is our history.  Learning about our past may teach us new things about ourselves, and allow us to put some present-day issues and circumstances into better perspective.  We strive for our research to be impeccable.  Few if any historians know as much-or, more importantly, feel as much-about the Black Fives Era as we do.  We love, honor, and respect our early basketball forebearers, and we hope this passion shows up in our work.  We are overjoyed when we uncover any new shred of history relating to the all-black teams of that bygone basketball age.  At the same time, we also often feel the pain our ancestors endured, because the history of this segregated era in intense not only from a basketball perspective, but also socially, culturally, economically, politically, physically, emotionally, and mentally.  It was a particularly difficult time for most African Americans.  Protection and preservation of this history is vital to us.  We are conscious of how black history has been lost, ignored, misinterpreted, misunderstood, misappropriated, or exploited in the past.  We want the telling and retelling of our basketball legacy to be done with respect, dignity, sincerity, and accuracy and we don't want the stories to end with just the storytelling.  Therefore, we have gone to great lengths to protect the intellectual property associated with the Black Fives Era.  Yet, we do not own the history itself.  The history is all of ours, to share and pass on.  We are proud to be involved in such a worthwhile endeavor, and we hope that you become proud too, the minute you learn about Black Fives.  Very Sincerely, CLAUDE JOHNSON ~ Founder, Black Fives Inc. THERE IS ALSO SOME TEXT ON THE BACK OUTSIDE COVER.   SOME OF THE COMMON TEXT ON BACK OF CARDS: Photograph courtesy Black Fives Inc; Babson Library Archives of Springfield College; Swain Collection; Western Reserve Historical Society; Lincoln University of Pennsylvania Archives COVER: That is LINCOLN UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA, 1917 on the cover. SOME OF THE TEXT ON BACK OF EACH CARD BRIEFLY DESCRIBING PICTURE: Company E. 372nd Colored Infantry Regiment, 1932 (After fighting in France during World War I, Soldiers from the 372nd Colored Infantry Regiment's Company E--nicknamed the "Bloody Hand" division returned home to Springfield, Ohio...For battlefield valor, the entire 372nd received France's highest military honor, the Croix de Guerre...). Smart Set Athletic Club, 1910 (The Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn was founded in 1905...). Pittsburgh Scholastics, 1917 (Hunter Johnson, an African American who had formerly trained the track and football teams at Carnegie Tech ant the University of Pittsburgh...). Monticello Athletic Association, 1912 (Founded in 1911 by Cumberland "Cum" Posey Jr., one of Pittsburgh's best athletes...). Howard University, 1911 (The first varsity basketball team of Washington, DC's Howard University easily won the 1910-1911 Colored Basketball World's Championship...Edward B. Gray...Hudson "Huddy" Oliver...became surgeons). Hampton Institute, 1913 (Virginia's Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, had one of the best African American basketball teams...). St. Cyprian Athletic Club (Henry Lee was the forward and captain of the St. Cyprian Athletic Club Speedboys, an African American team...predominantly black San Juan Hill section of New Your City...). Delaney Rifles Athletic Club, 1915 (The Delaney rifles Athletic Club, formed in Pittsburgh in 1908, was loosely named after Martin Delany...). Crescent Athletic Club, 1909 (The Crescent Athletic Club was one of the earliest all-black basketball teams in Washington, DC...). Charles "Tarzan" Cooper (Charles "Tarzan" Cooper, 1907-1980 was a star center with the Philadelphia Panthers, New York Rens, Grumman Hellcats, and Washington Bears...considered one of the greatest centers of his time...Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977) . Independent Pleasure Club of New Jersey, 1913 (Formed in 1908 in East Orange, New Jersey...). Alpha Physical Culture Club, 1910 (America's first all-black athletic club...formed in Harlem in 1904 by Jamaica-born brothers Conrad and Gerald Norman...). Spartan Athletic Club, 1910-1911 (Organized in Brooklyn in 1910...led by the Harris sister, was on of the first all-black women's basketball teams...).  William "Dolly" King (A basketball and football star at Long Island University...King helped break the pro basketball color barrier by signing with the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League). Mike Dorsey (The Pittsburgh Scholastics' Dorsey pictured circa 1917...). Mike Briscoe (Briscoe, pictured circa 1917, was star forward of Atlantic City's Vandal Athletic Club...played their home games in a wire mesh cage...). Jim Dorsey (Pioneer of black basketball and sport in Pittsburgh...). Hilton Slocum (Slocum helped make the Spartan Braves...). Hudson Oliver (Pictured circa 1911, Oliver was among the best African American basketball players of his time.  He won four Colored Basketball World's Championships...). New York Girls, 1910-1911 (One of the earliest African American women's basketball teams...won the female colored basketball championship of New York and New Jersey in 1911...featured the Cole sisters, former stars at local Wadleigh High School...). Morehouse College, 1922-1923 (Despite not winning a single basketball game during its first four seasons of intercollegiate competition, Morehouse College of Atlanta, Georgia, had become a powerhouse by 1922...). Buxton YMCA, 1907 (In the early 1900s, Consolidation Coal Company established the unique, predominantly African American mining community of Buxton, Iowa.  With good jobs, good pay, good housing, and little discrimination, Buxton was known as a "black Utopia"...). Alpha Physical Culture Club, 1915-1916 (Formed in Harlem in 1904...Its basketball team, the Alpha Big Five, was a founding member of the first African American basketball league, Olympian Athletic League...). Dayton Rens, 1948 (When on of its teams folded under financial pressure midway through the 1948-1949 season, the National Basketball League invited the famous New York Renaissance of Harlem...). Orion Basket Ball Club, 1913 (...one of Philadelphia's earliest all-black teams). Stentonworth Athletic Club, 1911 (The Stentonworth Athletic Club, one of Philadelphia's first African American basketball teams, featured several future stars, including brothers Harry and Jo Duplessis...). Tuskegee Institute, 1915-1916 (Although Tuskegee Institute of Alabama fielded a varsity basketball team...the college's emphasis on football...prevented the Tigers from reaching national prominence in basketball...).  Owl Field Club, 1910-1911 (Based in Newark, New Jersey, the Owl Field Club team was a top regional contender in the early and mid-1910s...). John Isaacs (A crisp, playmaking guard and hard-nosed defender, John "Boy Wonder" Isaacs led his Textile High School team to the 1935 New York City championship...). Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, 1917 (The Lincoln varsity basketball team reached national prominence in the mid-1910s after brothers Ulysses "Lyss" Young and William "Pimp" Young enrolled in the school...). ADDITIONAL TEXT: There is more text on the back of each card describing the picture on the front. I just stated a brief part. So, here you have a very nice piece of History. These PostCards would make beautiful individually framed pictures, to be placed in your home, office, den, club, school, etc. PIECE OF BASKETBALL HISTORY! AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE! BLACK FIVES! THIRTY POST CARDS! MINT! NEGRO LEAGUE BASKETBALL! BLACK FIVES! A BOOK OF POSTCARDS! 30 INDIVIDUAL POSTCARDS! AFRICAN AMERICAN! BASKETBALL! 1904-1950!  MINT! Lets start the bidding at $30.99.   This would be a very nice addition to your collection.  Once your payment is received!  Your item will be shipped out immediately!  The very next day the post office is open!  A great gift for the collector in your life.  Holidays and birthdays are always coming.  Be prepared!  This would make a great, NO OCCASION/SURPRISE GIFT!  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE USA!  Insurance is always a recommended option.  There is always the possibility (maybe not probable, but possible) your item may get lost in the morass of the USPS.  If you choose not to insure the item, my postal receipt will serve as proof/validation your item had been shipped.    Maybe this item just isn't what you had in mind!  You may want to consider using the option on this auction page.  "Email to a friend!"  You will find this link in the near upper right hand corner.  Below the item number!    Shipping & Handling for locations outside the USA will be determined by your exact address.  I SHIP WORLD WIDE!  Insurance is required for locations outside the USA.  You may want to check out my other very interesting auctions.  They're worth the trip.  You just might discover something else you really don't need!  PayPal...Only.  Thanks, JR.(n)     Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal! 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