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Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Robert, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--History--United States--Biography.
- Baseball.
- African American baseball players.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Only the ball was white
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199853786 (ebook) :
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