Product Description: This book traces the entire story of black baseball, documenting the growth of the Negro Leagues at a time when segregation dictated that the major leagues were strictly white, and explaining how the drive to integrate the sport was a pivotal part of the American civil rights movement...read more

Product Description: By all counts, Dick "Lefty" O'Neal didn't have a chance of playing professional baseball. However, today he holds the distinction of being the only white baseball player to pitch for two teams in the Negro Leagues that flourished throughout the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Winner, Robert Peterson Recognition Award, 2008 Willie Wells was arguably the best shortstop of his generation. As Monte Irvin, a teammate and fellow Hall of Fame player, writes in his foreword, "Wells really could do it all. He was one of the slickest fielding shortstops ever to come along...read more

Product Description: The Kansas City Monarchs. The Chicago American Giants. The St. Louis Stars. The Birmingham Black Barons. The Homestead Grays. The Indianapolis Clowns. For over 50 years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America...read more

Product Description: This is the biography of All-Star Negro League Baseball player, Byron "Mex" Johnson of the Kansas City Monarchs. He was the grandson of a slave growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas during Jim Crow. He was college educated and became a teacher at the very high school he graduated from in Little Rock...read more

Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige made their way into the Hall of Fame. For this book, more than 50 former Negro League players and baseball historians were asked to vote for players who they believe should have been included in the Hall of Fame, and to select an All-Time Negro League All-Star Team. In addition to presenting and discussing their choices, the book profiles the lives and careers of the players selected. Appendices include rosters of the players and historians who voted.

An account of the life, career, and final downhill years of the man who was called 'the black Babe Ruth,' and who died, at thirty-five, during the winter after Jackie Robinson broke the minor league color barrier. (view table of contents)

A classic history of Negro League baseball provides a definitive account of the game, from the post-Civil War era to Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, documenting the athletes, key games, statistics, records, and more. (view table of contents)

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.

Relates his life, his career in baseball's Negro Leagues, and his refusal to move to the majors after the integration of the sport