Black Baseball’s “Funmakers”: Taking the Miami Ethiopian Clowns Seriously
Found almost exclusively in black newspapers, box scores for Miami Ethiopian Clowns games read like a cast list for a Night at the Museum sequel: King Tut, Abbadaba, Tarzan, Ulysses Grant Greene, Wahoo, Goose Tatum, Highpockets West, Peanuts Nyassas, Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia[fn]See, for example, the box score in “Crack Negro Teams Here,” Milwaukee […]