Download PDF by John B. Holway,Frank Ceresi: Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues: Revised

By John B. Holway,Frank Ceresi

Before Jackie Robinson crossed significant league baseball's colour line, there existed a parallel international of "blackball" with its personal pantheon of superstars: Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, etc. 1000's of elite athletes performed within the Negro Leagues from 1887 in the course of the early Nineteen Fifties, and this notable oral background bargains an inside of examine a few of their lives. Seventeen gamers and a workforce proprietor reminisce approximately this often-overlooked part of yank baseball, recapturing the period with a vividness that no journalist might rival.
Author John Holway has completed greater than an individual else within the makes an attempt to realize attractiveness for the Negro Leagues and to aid their so much deserving stars achieve their rightful locations within the nationwide Baseball corridor of repute. through the overdue Sixties and early Seventies, Holway sought out veterans of the Negro Leagues and recorded their reminiscences. He then performed vast learn to verify the tales with information from newspapers of the period. the result's a residing historical past of the nice black groups, acclaimed by way of The New York occasions as "the closest we will be able to come to seeing them." This revised variation gains over 80 classic images and a Foreword by way of baseball historian Frank Ceresi.

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