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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection GV875.A1 N45 2008 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Kadir, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Negro leagues--History--Juvenile literature.
- Negro leagues.
- African American baseball players--Juvenile literature.
- African American baseball players.
- Baseball--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Baseball.
- History.
- United States.
- African Americans.
- Baseball players.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy 1)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 88 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, [2008]
- Summary:
- Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
- Contents:
- 1st Inning. Beginnings
- 2nd Inning. A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play
- 3rd Inning. Life in the Negro leagues
- 4th Inning. Racket ball: Negro League owners
- 5th Inning. The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars
- 6th Inning. Latin America: baseball in paradise
- 7th Inning. Good exhibition: the Negro Leagues vs. the White Leagues
- 8th Inning. Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game
- 9th Inning. Then came Jackie Robinson
- Extra Innings. The end of the Negro leagues
- Negro leaguers who made it to the major leagues / Negro leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Winner, 2009
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Honor, 2009
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2009.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has dustjacket with stickers for Coretta Scott King Award Winner, The Robert Siebert Medal and the Coretta Scott King Honor pasted on front cover.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has "Reinforced binding".
- Banks Collection copy 2 has embossed monogram stamp of Joanna Banks on front free endpaper.
- Banks Collection copy 2 has illegible dated 21st-century autograph ("[...] 2008") on title leaf.
- Banks Collection copy 2 has advertisement for "Heroes of the Negro Leagues" at ArtInsights Gallery, Reston, Va., laid in.
- Banks Collection copy 2: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nelson, Kadir. We are the ship.
- ISBN:
- 9780786808328
- 0786808322
- OCLC:
- 187095171
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