Black Writers/Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues

by Jim Reisler

Book Overview

In recent years baseball has recognized the talents of many black players who spent their entire careers in the Negro leagues. But the men who covered these stars, the black sportswriters whose eloquent, persistent, and occasionally bitter words helped spur the integration of the major leagues, have received little recognition.The eight men represented here (Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson,...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786400021
• ISBN13: 9780786400027
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"