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

by Jim Reisler

Book Overview

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers, they faced the same conditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786429070
• ISBN13: 9780786429073
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher