Author : Shaun McCormack
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823934744
Presents a biography of Cool Papa Bell and chronicles the history of African American participation in organized baseball, the formation of the Negro leagues, and racial politics in America.
Author : Jeremy Beer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496224965
The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
Author : John B. Holway
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0486136477
The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.
Author : Rob Ruck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : African American athletes
ISBN : 9780252063428
A new preface updates this richly detailed look at the major role sport played in shaping Pittsburgh's black community from the Roaring Twenties through the Korean War. Rob Ruck reveals how sandlot, amateur, and professional athletics helped black Pittsburgh realize its potential for self-organization, expression, and creativity.
Author : Brent Kelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786422791
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 the many other African Americans, both stars and journeymen, have largely been forgotten. These were the men who barnstormed the country, playing in loosely organized leagues and eking out a living doing what they did best, playing baseball. In this work, 52 players reminisce about what it was like to play in the Negro Leagues, from the great teams and players to the terrible Jim Crow conditions they faced in the South. Now in their sixties, seventies and eighties, these men reflect on their careers with humor, bluntness, and poignancy, providing a rich record of a part of the game that is quickly being lost to history.
Author : Donn Rogosin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803259690
The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Rogosin's narrative pulls the veil off these "invisible men" and gives us a glorious chapter in American history.
Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2004-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252095820
It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in a season. All agreed he was a frightening hitter to face. What Satchel Paige was to pitching in the Negro leagues, Gibson was to hitting: their greatest star, biggest gate attraction, and most important symbol. Though Gibson is best remembered as "the black Babe Ruth," Ruth became a beloved symbol of the national pastime, while Gibson lived a life veiled in the darkness that came both from the shadow world of the Negro leagues and from within his own tortured soul. Mark Ribowsky, the widely acclaimed biographer of Satchel Paige, pulls no punches in his portrait of this magnificent, troubled athlete. This is the most complete, thorough, and authoritative account of the life of black ball's greatest hitter, and one of its most important stars.
Author : Lonnie Wheeler
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1647001110
The ï¬?rst full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’s speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark. In The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell, experienced baseball writer and historian Lonnie Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, a key member of some of the greatest Negro League teams in history. Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses. Wheeler charts Bell’s ups and downs in life and in baseball, in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he went to escape American racism and MLB’s color line. Rich in context and suffused in myth, this is a treat for fans of baseball history.
Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780792253068
The result of a study commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and funded by a grant from Major League Baseball(, this richly illustrated, comprehensive history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component to re-create the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. 75 photos.
Author : William Brashler
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566632959
This illuminating biography introduces an authentic American sports hero and recaptures the mood and style.
