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Black Diamond has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine, [2] and Book Report. [3] The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on Negro league baseball vocabulary. [4] Black Diamonds is a 1994 CCBC Choice, [5] a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book, [6] and received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award author honor. [7]
The book was also illustrated with 57 photographs of players, manager, and owners, many of them found nowhere else. [34] White's History of Colored Base Ball was the first book devoted to black professional baseball, and it would remain the only one for more than 60 years, until Robert W. Peterson published Only the Ball Was White in 1970 ...
Holway, John B. (2001), The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History, Fern Park, FL: Hastings House, ISBN 0-8038-2007-0 v t
Negro league baseball exhibit featuring Gibson's portrait at the Baseball Hall of Fame Larry Doby , who broke the American League color barrier in July, felt that Gibson was the best black player in 1945 [ 25 ] and 1946; [ 26 ] over even Jackie Robinson , who became the first black player in modern Major League history in April 1947 playing in ...
The Casey Award (stylized as CASEY) is an annual literary award that has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983.The award was created by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine because, up until then, there was no award given to authors and publishers of distinguished baseball literature; it is considered to be ...
James Henry Winters, Jr. (April 29, 1899 – December 12, 1971), nicknamed "Nip" and "Jesse", was a pitcher and first baseman in Negro league baseball, playing for many top eastern teams from 1920 to 1933, and considered one of the top left-handed pitchers of his day.
These engaging and powerful books will stay with you long after you’ve finished them. The post 25 Best Books by Black Authors You’ll Want to Know About appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America is a 2007 book written by Joe Posnanski about Buck O'Neil, an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues during the 1940s and 1950s.