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Description
Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time.
Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. Imagine that you are breaking records but the world ignores your achievements. Imagine having a dream but no chance to make that dream come true. This is what life was like for African American baseball players before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier.
Meet Josh Gibson, called the black Babe Ruth, who hit seventy-five home runs in 1931; James Cool Papa Bell, the fastest man in baseball; legendary Satchel Paige, who once struck out twenty-four batters in a single game; and, of course, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball, and one of the greatest players of all time.
Written by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford with a foreword by Buck O'Neil, a Negro leagues legend whose baseball contributions spanned eight decades, this book is a home run for baseball and history lovers, and makes a great gift for both boys and girls.
Publication date
August 30, 2022
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781635928358
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
BISAC categories
JNF007050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural Heritage JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century JNF054010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball JNF007100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
Library of Congress categories
History Baseball Negro Leagues
School Library Journal
An engaging overview, richly augmented by archival photographs... this title succeeds as a thoughtful introduction, capturing both the significance of the Negro Leagues and the accomplishments of its great players
Kirkus
One doesn't need to be a baseball fan to be fascinated.
Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2019 Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; and the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. Carole Boston Weatherford, autora y poeta superventas del New York Times, fue nombrada ganadora del Premio de No Ficción del Washington Post-Children's Book Guild en 2019. Sus numerosos libros para niños incluyen al ganador del Premio de Autor Coretta Scott King Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, ilustrado por Floyd Cooper; los libros de Honor Caldecott Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, ilustrado por Kadir Nelson, y Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, ilustrado por Ekua Holmes, que también fue un libro de Honor Robert F. Sibert; el aclamado por la crítica Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, ilustrado por Eric Velasquez; y el libro de Honor Newbery BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, ilustrado por Michele Wood. Carole Boston Weatherford vive en Carolina del Norte.
