If You Were Only White : The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige /

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Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever--an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy "Satchel" Paige was...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spivey, Donald
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Series:Sports and American culture series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Paige, Satchel, > 1906-1982.
Negro leagues > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States.
Pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography.
African American baseball players > United States > Biography.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Warm-ups: a prelude
  • Without a Satchel
  • On the mount
  • "If you were only white"
  • Turning the Paige
  • Blackballing the Great Depression
  • How the West was won
  • Baseball diplomacy
  • The fugitive
  • Lazarus
  • Double V
  • Integration
  • Center stage in the white arena
  • Ninth inning
  • Extra innings.

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