Product Description: There is more to baseball than meets the eye. There are things that happen that could not be imagined. The game is unchanging yet forever new. What elevates baseball to a religion for so many? How can it never cease to amaze and surprise us? Renowned Negro Leagues scholar John Holway turns his focus to that which cannot be seen the inexplicable, magical mysteries of baseball...read more

Product Description: Baseball players are superstitious creatures. They know never to step on the baseline or mention that a no-hitter is in progress, and some have been known to wear the same shirt throughout a hitting streak or eat the same meal before every game...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: They simultaneously fought two wars--and won both. In 1942, as the United States entered World War II, Hitler ruled the skies in Europe and Jim Crow ruled the skies in the United States. The cream of black youth poured into Tuskegee, Alabama in the early 1940s when the Army Air Force reluctantly opened pilot training to blacks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A portrait of the premier slugger of the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946 describes the achievements that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame and the discrimination that prevented him from entering the major leagues

Product Description: World of baseball book

Product Description: Telling of life in the Negro Leagues by the men who lived it, this title brings back to life the characters and playing careers of some of the greatest players baseball has ever known. 2 cassettes.

Provides a season by season acccount of the lives and careers of baseball greats Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, discussing their years in the Negro leagues, their achievements, and their election to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Product Description: Long before the triumph of Jackie Robinson, America had a strong tradition of black baseball with its own pantheon of superstars--Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and many more...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Book by Holway, John