The Negro leagues revisited : conversations with 66 more baseball heroes

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Label

The Negro leagues revisited : conversations with 66 more baseball heroes

Title remainder

conversations with 66 more baseball heroes

Statement of responsibility

by Brent Kelley

Creator

• Kelley, Brent P

Contributor

• Kelley, Brent P

Subject

• Baseball players -- United States -- Interviews
• History
• Negro leagues
• Baseball players
• Basketballspieler
• African American baseball players -- Interviews
• Interviews
• United States
• African American baseball players
• Negro leagues -- History
• USA
• Interview
• Schwarze

Genre

• Interviews
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Sixty-six former Negro League players tell what it was like to play professional baseball for such legendary teams as the Kansas City Monarchs, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Birmingham Black Barons. With careers that span the decades between the 1920s and 1960s, these men share their memories of not only Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Oscar Charleston, and Cool Papa Bell, but other, lesser-known but equally respected ballplayers: Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, Henry Kimbro, Willie Wells, Ralph Johnson and Hilton Smith. They relate their encounters with hostile crowds and recount their life on the road, where they slept on the bus, endured a regimen of saltines and sardines and played injured - all for the love of baseball and the sake of competition."--Jacket

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 796.357/64/08996073
• 796.357/08996073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GV865.A1

LC item number

K435 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography