The Negro Leagues: The Story of Black Baseball (The African-American Experience) [Library Binding]

Jacob Margolies (Author), Robert Peterson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1993 | Series: The African-American Experience

A history of the Negro Leagues, baseball teams which flourished in the early twentieth century as a result of discrimination against black baseball players, highlighting some of the outstanding players and their achievements.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Gr. 7-12. From the African American Experience series, this title chronicles the history of black baseball from the 1880s through the birth of the Negro Leagues in the 1920s to its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s and its demise in the 1950s. Writing for an older audience than Cooper's Playing America's Game or Gardner and Shortelle's Forgotten Players , Margolies starts with great material and tells his story well. He includes the experiences of black players who went to Mexico and the Caribbean to play and discusses the older players who never made it to the majors, though the doors eventually opened to younger black rookies. Black-and-white photographs of teams and individual players appear together in a center section. The appendix lists three decades of standings for teams in the Negro Leagues. Carolyn Phelan

Product Details

• Library Binding: 128 pages
• Publisher: Franklin Watts (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053111130X
• ISBN-13: 978-0531111307
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,338,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jacob Margolies is the General Counsel for America for The Yomuri Shimbun, Japan's largest media group, He is the author of The Negro Leagues: The Story of Black Baseball which was named a notable book of the year by the National Council on Social Studies. Margolies lives in Brooklyn, New York.