Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues write by John B. Holway. This book was released on 2012-05-29. Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Voices from the Negro Leagues
Voices from the Negro Leagues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from the Negro Leagues write by Brent Kelley. This book was released on 2005-03-17. Voices from the Negro Leagues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Blackball Stars
Blackball Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blackball Stars write by John Holway. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Blackball Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 of the Negro Leagues are forgotten or ignored. With this book, Holway sets out to rectify that. Features 25 tales of outstanding players.
The Negro Leagues Revisited
The Negro Leagues Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Negro Leagues Revisited write by Brent Kelley. This book was released on 2015-05-20. The Negro Leagues Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s. Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big Train Dudley, Mex Johnson, Buck O'Neil, Herbert Barnhill, Bernard Fernandez, Dick Powell, Jimmy Barnes, Charlie Biot, Monk Favors, Alton King, Buster Haywood, Casey Jones, Hickey Redd, Tommy Sampson, John Gibbons, Schoolboy Gulley, Schoolboy Kimbrough, Briefcase Simpson, Doc Dennis, Ralph Johnson, Lefty LaMarque, Junior Miller, Tex Williams, Baby Face Peatros, Big Jim McCurine, Eddie Williams, Zipper Zapp, Billy Fender, Dave Pope, Bill Powell, Marvin Price, Bob Scott, Dirk Gibbons, Hoss Ritchey, Lefty Bo Maddix, Hank Presswood, Mickey Stubblefield, Josh Gibson, Jr., Bobo Henderson, Fancy Dan Porter, Jumpin Johnny Wilson, Quack Brown, Granny Gladstone, Hoppy Hopkins, Carl Long, Jim Robinson, Juan Armenteros, Peanut Johnson, Eddie Reed, Ricky Maroto, Peachhead Mitchell, Ted Rasberry, Pedro Sierra, Jim Cobbin, Dick Scruggs, Sonny Webb and Tommy Taylor. Rare personal photographs and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.
Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maybe I'll Pitch Forever write by LeRoy Paige. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Maybe I'll Pitch Forever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted everyone by playing professional baseball, in and out of the majors, until 1965. Struggle—against early poverty and racial discrimination—was part of Paige's story. So was fast living and a humorous point of view. His immortal advice was "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
