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  • The Newark Eagles Take Flight: The Story of the 1946 Negro League Champions

    SABR Digital Library, #68

    by Society for American Baseball Research, Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series Book 68 - SABR Digital Library
    The Newark Eagles won only one Negro National League pennant during the franchise's 15-year tenure in the Garden State, but the 1946 squad that ran away with the NNL and then triumphed over the Kansas City Monarchs in a seven-game World Series was a team for the ages. World War II had ended, and numerous players who had served in the military returned to resume their playing careers with the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pride of Smoketown: The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords

    SABR Digital Library, #77

    by Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series Book 77 - SABR Digital Library
    Pride of Smoketown: The 1935 Pittsburgh CrawfordsEdited by Frederick C. Bush and Bill NowlinAssociate editors Len Levin and Carl RiechersThe 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords team, one of the dominant teams in Negro League history, is often compared to the legendary 1927 "Murderer's Row" New York Yankees. The squad from "Smoketown"—a nickname that the Pittsburgh Courier often applied to the metropolis ... Read more

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  • The Stars Shone on Philadelphia

    The 1934 Negro National League Champions

    by Rebecca T. Alpert ...
    Series series Champions of Black Baseball
    In 1934, Ed Bolden's Philadelphia Stars joined the new Negro National League II (NNL2), which had been founded one year earlier. After fending off their intrastate-rivals, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Stars claimed the NNL2's second-half championship and faced the first-half champions for the title. They defeated the Chicago American Giants to claim the NNL2 crown.Over two dozen SABR members ... Read more

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  • The First Negro League Champion

    The 1920 Chicago American Giants

    Edited by Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin, Carl Riechers ...
    On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball announced that seven Negro Leagues, from various seasons spanning the years 1920 to 1948, were being recognized as major leagues and that all statistics from those leagues and seasons would henceforth be considered part of the major-league record books. The earliest league to be included is the first iteration of the Negro National League (NNL), founded ... Read more

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  • When the Monarchs Reigned

    Kansas City's 1942 Negro League Champions

    Edited by Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin ...
    The Kansas City Monarchs are arguably the best-known of all Negro League teams, thanks in part to the inimitable Satchel Paige's association with the team and longtime Monarch Buck O'Neil's role as an ambassador of Black baseball history.The Monarchs won the first-ever Negro League World Series against the Hilldale club in 1924. Black World Series play went on a 15-year hiatus after 1927, but when ... Read more

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    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

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  • A Fire to Win

    The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

    by John Lombardo ...
    A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Woody Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.Woody Hayes is one of the greatest football coaches in history—and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher would tout the ideals of democracy yet run his football empire as an absolute monarchy. ... Read more

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  • Baseball's Leading Lady

    Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues

    by Andrea Williams ...
    For fans of Hidden Figures and Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated, Andrea Williams's Baseball's Leading Lady is the powerful true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, ... Read more

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  • Rickwood Field

    A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark

    by Allen Barra ...
    The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field becomes the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark.While America has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, Rickwood Field, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, has remained fixed in time. Best-selling baseball writer Allen Barra journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of ... Read more

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  • Unbeatable

    How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

    by Phillip Hoose ...
    Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Slump: Baseball During the Depression

    by Charles Alexander ...
    The first comprehensive history of baseball during the Great Depression, by the esteemed Charles Alexander. Read about the players, personalities, and political forces that shaped and guided America's most beloved game, and allowed it to continue to thrive even during some of the country's darkest days. It is a tribute to our National Pastime that baseball took on even greater importance to ... Read more

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  • "Double Duty" Radcliffe--36 Years of PItching & Catching in the Negro Leagues

    by Kyle McNary ...
    "Double Duty" Radcliffe is the biography of one of the most unique baseball stars in history. Nicknamed "Double Duty" because he was an all-star pitcher and catcher, Radcliffe played from 1919-1954 in the Negro Leagues with teams such as the Chicago American Giants, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Birmingham Black Barons, New York Black Yankees and Memphis Red Sox. In this book, called ... Read more

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