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Book

What were the Negro Leagues?

Call Number

  • J 796.357 JOHN (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Workshop, 2019.

Physical Description

108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Audience

Ages: 8-12 years.

Series

What was?

Summary

"Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s." --

Contents

  • What were the Negro Leagues?
  • The beginning of baseball
  • The first black pro teams
  • Early black baseball stars
  • The father of black baseball
  • A league of their own
  • The Negro Leagues grow
  • The second Negro national League
  • The Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays
  • The great experiment
  • Jackie Robinson
  • The end of an era
  • Their place in history
  • Timelines
  • Bibliography.

Subjects

Added Authors

Stephen Marchesi