Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams by Robert Peterson - 1992-09-04

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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… Read More

Oxford University Press. As New. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback, illus.. 9780195076370 . Book As New. NO defects. NO notes or ANY markings. No stickers. ; 406 pages .

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