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Pages: 348
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Baseball lore is replete with the tales of such legendary Negro League stars as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson and a few others. But the stories of
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Pages: 450
Authors: John B. Holway
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool
The Negro Leagues Revisited
Language: en
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Authors: Brent Kelley
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-20 - Publisher: McFarland

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This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro Leagu
We Are the Ship
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Kadir Nelson
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“We are the ship; all else the sea.”—Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes
Blackball Stars
Language: en
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Authors: John Holway
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

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For 60 years professional baseball was a segregated sport. Even today, 44 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, most of the great black players o