What Were the Negro Leagues?
New York : Penguin Workshop, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
"Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s." -- (Source of summary not specified)
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.
Subjects:
Negro leagues -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American baseball players -- Juvenile literature.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Negro leagues -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American baseball players -- Juvenile literature.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages: 8-12 years.
ISBN:
9781524789992
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C SPORTS Baseball Joh | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/10/2024) |
C SPORTS Baseball Joh | Main (Downtown) | Children's NonFiction | Coming Soon |
C SPORTS Baseball Joh | Blythewood | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SPORTS Baseball Joh | Wheatley (Shandon) | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (page 108).