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What were the Negro Leagues?
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
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.