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What were the Negro Leagues?

What were the Negro Leagues?

Johnson, Varian, author.
Book 2019

Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s. This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball. In America during the early twentieth century, no part was safe from segregation, not even the country's national pastime, baseball. Despite...

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African American baseball players Juvenile literature
Baseball United States History Juvenile literature
Negro leagues History Juvenile literature
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ISBN:
9781524789992
9781524789985
Description:
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Target Audience Note:
Ages: 8-12 years
Contents:
What were the Negro Leagues?
The beginning of baseball
The first black pro teams
Early black baseball stars
The father of black baseball
A league of their own
The Negro Leagues grow
The second Negro national League
The Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays
The great experiment
Jackie Robinson
The end of an era
Their place in history
Timelines
Bibliography
LCCN:
2019030687
Control Number:
3347722
Other Authors:
Marchesi, Stephen, illustrator
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