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The bona fide legend of cool papa bell : speed, grace, and the negro leagues / Lonnie Wheeler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Lonnie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball players.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- 2021.
- New York : Abrams Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Documents the life of the Negro League star and Hall of Famer, tracing Bell's sharecropping heritage, his extraordinary switch-hitting talents, and how Major League Baseball's racial barriers impacted his career.
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Prologue: Looking over Jordan
- Jamie Nichols
- The slaughterhouse
- Tricky ball
- The Turkey Stearnes effect
- The stars come out
- Willie's girl
- We'll always have Cuba
- Lighting up big leaguers
- "The greatest negro baseball team ever seen"
- Mutiny
- Beholding Josh Gibson
- See you in Chicago
- Snookering Satchel
- The quintessential Crawfords
- Limbo
- The dictator's campaign for reelection
- Railroad tracks in the outfield
- The land of opportunity
- Fishing on the fourth of July
- Slugger in a straitjacket
- Ground balls to Jackie's backhand
- Stepping aside
- A basket of fruit
- Obscurity
- The call that changed everything
- Cool Papa Bell Avenue
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781647001117
- 1647001110
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