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Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams
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Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams

Author: Robert Peterson
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Peterson, Robert, 1925-2006.
Only the ball was white.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
(OCoLC)645839521
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Peterson
ISBN: 0195076370 9780195076370
OCLC Number: 25203243
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Includes index.
Description: 406 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: This was Negro baseball --
Pioneers in Black and White --
Early Black professionals teams --
Jim Crow scores on the squeeze play --
Giants in those days --
The black Wagner --
The Negro leagues --
Rube from Texas --
On the field and off --
The travellin' man --
Podunk today, hickory switch tomorrow --
Josh --
Freshening winds of freedom --
Emancipation proclamation --
The ninth inning --
Lost legends.
Responsibility: by Robert Peterson.
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Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

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