The Pitcher

This compendium of pitching lore, statistics, and analyses includes stories of some of the greatest baseball players and feats of all time and details on strategies and techniques, the evolution and aerodynamics of specific pitches, and training and fitness theories

THORN, John

Holway, John

Sports & Outdoors

Prentice Hall Direct

Hardcover, orange cloth, 8vo, First Edition, published 1975 by Dodd, Mead. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Covers the era from 1887 to 1947 when baseball was segregated. In over 400 games that have been uncovered between black teams and barnstorming white big leaguers, the blacks won at least two out of three games. Holway criss-crossed the country seeking out the veterans of the old Negro leagues, put their stories on tape and then spent countless hours in libraries to confirm their stories

Voices from the great Black baseball leagues

Dodd, Mead

Long before the triumph of Jackie Robinson, America had a strong tradition of black baseball with its own pantheon of superstars--Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and many more. This was the other half of American baseball, the half that was ignored for decades. Yet these black players, on their black teams and in their black leagues, may have been playing the most exciting--and possibly the best--baseball seen in America during the sixty "blackball" years from 1887 to 1947. Certainly, in over four hundred games that have been uncovered between the black teams and barnstorming white big leaguers, the blacks won at least two out of three. John Holway, who has done more than anyone to gain recognition for the Negro Leagues and to help their most deserving stars gain their rightful places in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, crisscrossed the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s seeking out the surviving veterans of the old Negro Leagues and putting their stories on tape; he then spent countless hours in libraries to confirm these stories. The result, in the words of nearly two dozen old-time players, and with statistics from the newspapers of the time, is one of the most important books on baseball history. Long out-of-print, this revised edition of Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues is supplemented with a new introduction, new photographs, and newly-researched statistics, to present the living history of some of the best baseball ever played.

Voices from the great black baseball leagues

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The Last .400 Hitter: The Anatomy of a .400 Season

Baseball

Brown & Benchmark Pub

Josh Gibson (Black Americans of Achievement)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Chelsea House Pub

A portrait of the premier slugger of the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946 describes the achievements that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame and the discrimination that prevented him from entering the major leagues

Biographies & Memoirs

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers

For 60 years professional baseball was a segregated sport. Even today, 44 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, most of the great black players of the Negro Leagues are forgotten or ignored. With this book, Holway sets out to rectify that. Features 25 tales of outstanding players.

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Provides a season by season acccount of the lives and careers of baseball greats Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, discussing their years in the Negro leagues, their achievements, and their election to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige

Looks at the history of the Black major leagues, offers profiles of some of the top players, and describes the contributions of Black professional baseball

Community & Culture

Mecklermedia

Recounts the days of the Negro baseball leagues, traces the careers of two major stars, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, and summarizes their accomplishments

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The Pitcher

Voices from the great Black baseball leagues

Voices from the great black baseball leagues

The Last .400 Hitter: The Anatomy of a .400 Season

Josh Gibson (Black Americans of Achievement)

Josh Gibson (Black Americans of Achievement)

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige