Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams

Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams / by Robert Peterson.

Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Robert, 1925-2006
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Baseball > United States > History.
African American baseball players > Biography.
African American baseball players
Baseball
Honkbal.
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
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Description
Summary:Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.
Physical Description:1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ISBN:9780199853786
0199853789
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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