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

Jacob Margolies (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994 | Series: African-American Experience

Illustrated with prints and photos, this book documents the history of Negro League baseball teams which flourished in the early 20th century in spite of discrimination. Profiles some of the leading figures, 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Franklin Watts (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053115694X
• ISBN-13: 978-0531156940
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,627,436 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.