Following the Money

ID: 2784 ~ Source: Lester, Larry, Interviewed by Regina Wenger, September 28, 2020, by phone in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX.
This file appears in: Crush Holloway

Larry Lester, black baseball researcher, discusses contract hopping, a practice Holloway and other black ballplayers utilized to earn a livable wage. Holloway likely engaged in this practice when he left Indianapolis for Baltimore in 1924.

This file appears in: Crush Holloway

By Regina Wenger
Two popular amusements at the turn of the twentieth century—staged locomotive collisions and baseball—came together in the life of Crush Holloway. As the story goes, Holloway’s father went to see the Crash at Crush, only to be informed at the event…