Only The Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
de Peterson, Robert
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Fine-Collectible
- ISBN 10
- 0195076370
- ISBN 13
- 9780195076370
- Librería
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Oxford University Press, 1992. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Fine-Collectible. 5.5"x8" 406 indexed pgs. First printing. Cover design by One Plus One. Spine slight slant, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. 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 saw, but was disappointed in the player's appearance. "He was a light brown," recalled one of Torrienti's teammates, "and would have gone up to the major leagues, but he had real rough hair." Such was life behind the color line, the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds of star-quality athletes from playing big-league baseball. When Only the Ball Was White was first published in 1970, Satchel Paige had not yet been inducted int...
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- Librería
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 15298
- Título
- Only The Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
- Autor
- Peterson, Robert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine-Collectible
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0195076370
- ISBN 13
- 9780195076370
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
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Argillite, Kentucky
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