WHY DON'T BLACK PEOPLE LIKE BASEBALL ANYMORE?

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  • My Kinda Player (Summer Sisters Book 5)

    • ASIN: B07BFCC72Y

    AJ Summer witnessed four of her sisters fall in love and settle down. But not her. She’s stuck in a rut, destined to spend the rest of her life watching from the dugout, kissing frogs. Then one night, she meets a mysterious stranger, who makes her feel alive and realize she’s not as broken as she thought–until she wakes up alone.Sawyer Randal... [Read More]

  • Baseball's Best 1,000: Rankings of the Greatest Players of All Time

    • ASIN: 0316463876
    • ISBN: 0316463876
    • Brand: BLACK DOG LEVENTHAL
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    Sure to generate debate, discussion, and a few dust-ups among baseball fanatics, Baseball's Best 1,000 ranks the best players of all time, providing fascinating career and biographic stats perfect for pouring over. A revised and up-to-date edition of Baseball's Best 1,000, a must-have book for baseball fans obsessed with stats, quick facts, and ... [Read More]

  • Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

    • ASIN: 0195076370
    • ISBN: 9780195076370
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel Torrienti out at first base. The scout liked what he... [Read More]

  • The Story of Jackie Robinson: Bravest Man in Baseball (Dell Yearling Biography)

    • ASIN: 0440400198
    • ISBN: 0440400198
    • Brand: Davidson, Margaret
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    Today many children dream of playing professional  baseball. Perhaps you are one of them. If you have  good athletic skills and you work hard, your dream  may be realized. But this wasn't always true for  athletes in the first part of this century. More  was required. A player had to be white. Black  players--no matter how well they cou... [Read More]

  • Baseball's Best 1,000 Revised: Rankings of the Skills, the Achievements, and the Performance of the Greatest Players of All Time

    • UPC: 768821127770
    • ASIN: 1579127770
    • ISBN: 1579127770
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    This thoroughly revised edition of Baseball's Best 1,000 includes updated listings plus new players, rankings, and photographs, all in a handier format that makes it a terrific pocket reference. Amust-have book for baseball fans obsessed with stats, quick facts, and the age-old debates over who the best players are and why, Baseball's Best 1,000 s... [Read More]

  • Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball (Step into Reading)

    • ASIN: 0394824563
    • ISBN: 9780394824567
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

    Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grad... [Read More]

  • The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball

    • ASIN: 0700603433
    • ISBN: 0700603433
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    Charter members of the Negro National League, stepping stone for Jackie Robinson, home base for Satchel Paige, and training ground for more than twenty blacks sent to the major leagues, the Kansas City Monarchs survived the entire thirty-five-year span of black baseball (from 1920 to mid 1950) and were widely regarded as the dominant black professi... [Read More]

  • Rawlings Select Pro Lite Youth Left-Handed Baseball Glove, Black, 12.25"

    • UPC: 083321463150
    • ASIN: B07G2LGTC2
    • Brand: Rawlings
    • Size: 12.25"
    • Manufacturer: Rawlings Sporting Goods

    With Nods from popular Pro player designs, the Rawlings select Pro Lite 12.25-Inch Youth left-handed Baseball glove will give aspiring big Leaguers the same glove styling and features as their favorite stars. The lightweight, soft-leather shell easily breaks in and retains shape. Built to withstand the wear-and-tear of everyday play, the glove feat... [Read More]

  • Best Mlb Catchers of All Time (Major League Baseball’s Best Ever)

    • ASIN: 1624031137
    • ISBN: 1624031137
    • Manufacturer: Sportszone

    Looks at some of the best catchers in baseball history, including Gabby Hartnett, Yogi Berra, Carlton Fisk, and Jorge Posada.

  • The Fantasy Football Black Book 2019 (Fantasy Black Book 14)

    • ASIN: B07SB2KKHX

    The 13 time #1 Best-Selling Fantasy Black Book is back for NFL 2019! Last year, the Black Book was #1 in both Football and Fantasy Sports on Amazon and has returned this season more loaded than ever before! Joe’s revolutionary player evaluation tool Relative Position Value (RPV) has changed the game and for the 14th Black Book, Joe has assembled ... [Read More]

  • Baseball Prospectus 2017

    • ASIN: 1681626403
    • ISBN: 1681626403
    • Brand: Turner
    • Manufacturer: Turner

    The 2017 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide. The 22nd edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important regular and advanced statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are e... [Read More]

  • Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season

    • ASIN: 0786411643
    • ISBN: 0786411643
    • Brand: Brand: Mcfarland n Co Inc Pub
    • Manufacturer: McFarland & Company

    Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legen... [Read More]

  • Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games of the Negro Leagues Most Important City (Jerry Malloy Conference)

    • ASIN: 0786426748
    • ISBN: 0786426748
    • Brand: Brand: McFarland n Company, Inc., Publishers
    • Manufacturer: McFarland & Company

    Founded in 1920, the Negro National League originally comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league’s groundwork was laid in one city—Chicago. Two of the season’s eight inaugural teams were based in the South Side, which was also the adopted home of Rube Foster, the “Father of the Negro Leagues.” A former stand-out pitcher in the... [Read More]

  • Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues: Revised Edition (Dover Baseball)

    • UPC: 800759475414
    • ASIN: 0486475417
    • ISBN: 0486475417
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Before Jackie Robinson crossed major league baseball's color line, there existed a parallel world of "blackball" with its own pantheon of superstars: Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and many others. Hundreds of elite athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1887 through the early 1950s, and this rema... [Read More]

  • Mizuno Adult Men's Premier Players Baseball Pant, Black, Large

    • UPC: 041969752609
    • ASIN: B000EAS5AI
    • Brand: Mizuno
    • Size: Large
    • Manufacturer: Mizuno

    Mizuno premier players pant L black Mizuno premier players pant L black Baseball clothing pants another great addition! name brand, authentic item to add to your collection.

  • The Fantasy Sports Boss 2019 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Over 700 Players Analyzed and Ranked!

    • ASIN: 1729467792
    • ISBN: 1729467792
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    The Fantasy Sports Boss 2019 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is once again back with unmatched analysis and features to help you dominate your league this season. At over 230 pages long, The Fantasy Sports Boss Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is jam-packed with over 700 player profiles and rankings; while also including such favorites as: 2019 Sleepers a... [Read More]

  • The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream

    • ASIN: 0738209015
    • ISBN: 0738209015
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chr... [Read More]

  • The Early Image of Black Baseball: Race and Representation in the Popular Press, 1871-1890

    • ASIN: 0786442069
    • ISBN: 0786442069
    • Manufacturer: McFarland

    This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image ... [Read More]

  • Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember

    • ASIN: 0316113913
    • ISBN: 0316113913
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Gla... [Read More]

  • The Best Man Plays: Major League Baseball and the Black Athlete, 1901-2002

    • ASIN: 0786414944
    • ISBN: 0786414944
    • Brand: Brand: Mcfarland Co Inc Pub
    • Manufacturer: McFarland & Company

    It has been said that sport is the great leveler, that on the playing field everyone is of equal status. Through the years, however, few institutions have better embodied America's ideals and prejudices than baseball. Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers marked the first time an African American participated in a major league contest i... [Read More]

  • WHY DON'T BLACK PEOPLE LIKE BASEBALL ANYMORE?

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