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Satchel Paige and Company

Satchel Paige and Company

By Leslie Heaphy

Nothing evokes the glory days of Negro Leagues baseball like the name of star pitcher Satchel Paige. This collection of essays and papers based on the…

£22.00(Paperback)
Black Writers/Black Baseball

Black Writers/Black Baseball

By Jim Reisler

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseballs Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century.…

£25.00(Paperback)
Fair Dealing and Clean Playing

Fair Dealing and Clean Playing

By Neil Lanctot

The Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, was the dominant team in black baseball during the 1920s. Their success came about largely through the…

£15.99(Paperback)
Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants and Stars

Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants and Stars

By Bob Motley, Byron Motley

The Kansas City Monarchs. The Chicago American Giants. The St. Louis Stars. The Newark Eagles. The Birmingham Black Barons. The Homestead Grays. The…

£11.50(Paperback)
Black Baseball and Chicago

Black Baseball and Chicago

By Leslie A. Heaphy

Founded in 1920, the Negro National League originally comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league's groundwork was laid in one city -…

£24.99(Paperback)
Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows

By Bill Kirwin

For nearly fifteen years "NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture" has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history.…

£11.99(Paperback)
Beyond the Shadows of the Senators

Beyond the Shadow of the Senators

By Brad Snyder

The Homestead Grays, through their brilliant baseball and enforced confinement to the Negro league, are one of those rare teams that transcend the sum…

£15.99(Hardback)
The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues

By James A. Riley

Now available in a handsomely produced oversized paperback -- with expanded information -- The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues…

£16.99(Paperback)
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