The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes [Hardcover]

Brent Kelley (Author)

Book Description

This is a followup volume to the acclaimed ("wonderful book"-Booklist/RBB; "a solid contribution"-MultiCultural Review) Voices from the Negro Leagues, which featured interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s.
Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big Train Dudley, Mex Johnson, Buck O'Neil, Herbert Barnhill, Bernard Fernandez, Dick Powell, Jimmy Barnes, Charlie Biot, Monk Favors, Alton King, Buster Haywood, Casey Jones, Hickey Redd, Tommy Sampson, John Gibbons, Schoolboy Gulley, Schoolboy Kimbrough, Briefcase Simpson, Doc Dennis, Ralph Johnson, Lefty LaMarque, Junior Miller, Tex Williams, Baby Face Peatros, Big Jim McCurine, Eddie Williams, Zipper Zapp, Billy Fender, Dave Pope, Bill Powell, Marvin Price, Bob Scott, Dirk Gibbons, Hoss Ritchey, Lefty Bo Maddix, Hank Presswood, Mickey Stubblefield, Josh Gibson, Jr., Bobo Henderson, Fancy Dan Porter, Jumpin Johnny Wilson, Quack Brown, Granny Gladstone, Hoppy Hopkins, Carl Long, Jim Robinson, Juan Armenteros, Peanut Johnson, Eddie Reed, Ricky Maroto, Peachhead Mitchell, Ted Rasberry, Pedro Sierra, Jim Cobbin, Dick Scruggs, Sonny Webb and Tommy Taylor. Rare personal photographs and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Kelley, who has authored six previous baseball books, interviews 66 former Negro League players, many now in their 80s and 90s, about their game, their league,^B and their lives. Among the highlights are a discussion with Ted Rasberry, who was--at various times--an owner (of the Kansas City Monarchs), a player, a traveling secretary, a manager, and even the vice president of the Negro American League. Many of the men interviewed played in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s against the legends of the Negro Leagues (Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Willie Wells). They recall those encounters with the same reverence that today's "cup-of-coffee" players will remember their days on the field with Cal Ripken Jr. or Mark McGwire. Despite all the hardships and indignities they endured, these men make clear that they were, above all else, ballplayers. Almost to a man, they say they'd do it again. Wonderful reading for baseball fans. Wes Lukowsky
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Review

"Wonderful reading for baseball fans" --Booklist/RBB

"Voluminous...top-notch work" --Public Library Quarterly

"Eyewitness accounts from the men who endured both the good and the bad of black ball" --USA Today Sports Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 399 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786408758
• ISBN-13: 978-0786408757
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,964,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful look, great book, June 28, 2000

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Scott Johnson (Great Falls, MT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes (Hardcover)

I have the pleasure of having season tickets right behind one of the gentlemen interviewed for this book and spent the last baseball game enjoying an advanced copy of it. The book is filled with great stats and homestyle pictures. The compilation flows with the memories of young men, that have somehow, gotten to be old men. Tall tales abound with plenty of winks and nods, but just reading about the antics, road trips and walks to the ball parks makes my heart ache for youth for these men. my hope is that all will read this book, or any book about the negro and independant leagues, they are a reminder of when baseball was less of a business and more of a passion.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Negro Leagues Revisited, November 18, 2011

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This review is from: The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes (Hardcover)

The third of Brent Kelley's books I've read and just as good as the others. Once you pick up the book you don't want to stop reading it!