The encyclopedia of Negro league baseball / Thom Loverro ; foreword by Wilmer Fields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loverro, Thom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negro leagues--Encyclopedias.

Negro leagues.

Baseball--United States--Encyclopedias.

Baseball.

African American baseball players--Encyclopedias.

African American baseball players.

United States.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Negro league baseball

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Checkmark Books, [2003]

Summary:

Despite star players, amazing athletic records, and a rich history, Negro League baseball remains largely unknown. Yet chronicles of its teams and players form an important part, not only of sports history, but of 20th-century social history too. From the days of the Civil War, when military ball teams were integrated for a brief time, to the first game in which Jackie Robinson set foot on the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Negro League baseball illustrated over and over again the best qualities of the sport. League athletes played for the joy of baseball and the love of competition. Gathered in The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball are more than 3,000 concise entries documenting the teams, players, stadiums, personalities, and games that made up some of the greatest moments in baseball.

Covered here are: Cool Papa Bell, the fastest man in Negro League baseball, whose career spanned more than 20 years, Larry Doby, the second black player to enter the major leagues and the first to join an American League team, Rube Foster, pitcher, the "father of black baseball," and founder of the Negro National League, Josh Gibson, the "Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues," and one of the greatest hitters of his time, Gus Greenlee, nightclub owner and racketeer who owned the Pittsburgh Crawfords, one of the greatest teams in the Negro Leagues, Satchel Paige, considered by many to be the greatest pitcher of all time, Jackie Robinson, the player who broke the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Wendell Smith, the sports editor for The Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation's leading African-American newspapers of its day. Complementing these and many other entries are more than 60 photographs, a bibliography, and an index, making The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball a necessary volume for fans, researchers, and historians.

Contents:

Entries A to Z 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index.

ISBN:

0816044317

OCLC:

63106538