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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.
LIBRA GV875.A1 N45 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Kadir, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coretta Scott King Award--2009.
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- Negro leagues--History--Juvenile literature.
- Negro leagues.
- African American baseball players--Juvenile literature.
- African American baseball players.
- Baseball--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Baseball.
- African Americans--History.
- Baseball--History.
- Baseball players.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Children's stories
- Coretta Scott King Award (illustrator) Honor book -- 2009.
- Coretta Scott King Award (author) Winner -- 2009.
- Fiction
- Literature
- History
- Juvenile works
- Literature.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 2008.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Story of Negro League baseball
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, [2008]
- Summary:
- The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay to do the one thing they loved more than anything else in the world: play ball. Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play
- Life in the Negro leagues
- Racket ball: Negro League owners
- The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars
- Latin America: baseball in paradise
- Good exhibition: the Negro leagues vs. the white leagues
- Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game
- Then came Jackie Robinson
- 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 and index.
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2009.
- Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2009.
- Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2009.
- NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book, 2009
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nelson, Kadir. We are the ship.
- ISBN:
- 9780786808328
- 0786808322
- OCLC:
- 187095171
- Publisher Number:
- 9780786808328 51899
- Online:
- https://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/cskbookawards
- For the EconKids book review see
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