What were the Negro Leagues?
Title
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What were the Negro Leagues?
What was?
What was--?
Title
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What were the Negro Leagues?
Personal Author
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Johnson, Varian author.
Publisher Info
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New York : Penguin Workshop, 2019.
Physical Description
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108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Series
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What was?
What was--?
Contents
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What were the Negro Leagues? -- The beginning of baseball -- The first black pro teams -- Early black baseball stars -- The father of black baseball -- A league of their own -- The Negro Leagues grow -- The second Negro national League -- The Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays -- The great experiment -- Jackie Robinson -- The end of an era -- Their place in history -- Timelines -- Bibliography.
Abstract
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Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s.
Subject Term
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Negro leagues -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American baseball players -- Juvenile literature.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre
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Informational works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author
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Marchesi, Stephen,