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Language: en
Pages: 522
Pages: 522
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promot
Language: en
Pages: 0
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-15 - Publisher:
"Awarded by The Sporting News in 2001, as the best researched baseball book of the year, the updated edition of Black Baseball's National Showcase has been expa
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
On Feb. 13, 1920, a group of independent black baseball team owners held a meeting at a YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. While they couldn't have known at the tim
Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: McFarland
The Birmingham Black Barons were a nationally known team in baseball's Negro leagues from 1920 through 1962. Among its storied players were Hall of Famers S
Language: en
Pages: 269
Pages: 269
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-05 - Publisher: McFarland
Founded in 1920, the Negro National League originally comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league's groundwork was laid in one city--Chicago. Two of