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Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time.
Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true.
This is what life was like for African...
Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true.
This is what life was like for African...
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Purple Toad Publishing
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
Banned from professional baseball in the late 19th century, African-American players were forced to go on the road to make money playing the game they loved. Enduring poor fields and long journeyes between games, teams brought their unique and entertaining brand of baseball to towns big and small. Even when they had trouble securing food and lodging because of the color of thier skin, these players perserved, opening the door for the ultimate return...
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Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"This volume is a comprehensive, year-by-year reference to the basic facts in Negro League history. From the Negro Leagues' organized beginning in 1920 through their eventual dissolution in 1948, it includes notes regarding league meetings, important games, pennant information and criticism by prominent baseball columnists"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, professional baseball was mostly segregated. The Negro Leagues provided an alternative for African American players. Discover the history of African American baseball and the people who worked to end the sport's decades of segregation.
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Baseball card adventures volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series. They soon learn that everything about Satch is fast -- whether it's his talking, driving, or getaways. But is he really the fastest pitcher who ever lived?...
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Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When nine-year-old Teddy Caldwell breaks Uncle Drew Weems's kitchen window with a baseball, he soon learns a lot more about his elderly neighbor. During the Great Depression, he was the valet to Bopeep Shines, a legend of the Negro Leagues"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Purple Toad Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Brace to meet some of the biggest baseball stars of the Negro Leagues. They were men and women of glory and achievement, of spectacular ability and heartbreaking obstacles. They rose above discrimination to pursue their dreams."--
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Scraps of time volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
During the Depression in Nashville, Tennessee, two baseball-loving brothers host Josh Gibson, a star of the Negro Leagues, in their home, and are motivated to get their own team started as well.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
19) Satch & me
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
20) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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