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Sacrifice Play: The Negro Leagues Remembered |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: David Conrads |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,929 Words, 17,961 Characters |
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They played for teams like the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Cleveland Buckeyes, and the Chicago American Giants. In a sport renowned for nicknames, they sported some of the best: Cool Papa, Smokey Joe, Big Mitt, Highpockets, Double Duty. It is said they were good enough--but not white enough--to play in the major leagues. Indeed, the players in the Negro leagues were among the greatest the game has ever seen. But until recently, these players and this chapter in American history have been mostly ignored.
Now, after decades of neglect, there is a greater awareness of the Negro leagues than at any time since they dissolved in the mid-1950s. There has been a steady increase in interest since the early 1970s, when nine Negro league greats--a mythical all-star team-...
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...New York, 1992.
Robert Peterson, Only the Ball Was White, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992 (first published by Prentice Hall, 1970).
Mark Ribowsky, Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige on the Shadows of Baseball, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994.
For young adult readers (ages 9--13):Michael Cooper, Playing America's Game: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Lodestar, New York, 1993.
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