Contains profiles of sixty Negro League players, each accompanied by a watercolor portrait, many originally published as trading cards in 1990, and includes the DVD "Only the Ball was White," a history of the Negro Leagues.
Examines the history of the Negro League of baseball, which existed up until the late 1940s due to segregation of whites and blacks in the Major League.
A description of the life of the outstanding baseball player who started in the Negro Leagues, overcame racial discrimination to play with the New York Giants, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.
Presents the life of the famed Negro League third baseman and discusses segregation in America, the formation of the Negro Leagues, and the integration of professional baseball in 1947.
Presents a biography of the powerful homerun hitter and chronicles the history of African American participation in organized baseball, the formation of the Negro leagues, and racial politics in America.
Profiles twelve baseball players who labored in the Negro leagues formed near the turn of the century because African Americans were not allowed in the major leagues from 1898 until 1947.
A history of the Negro Leagues, baseball teams which flourished in the early twentieth century as a result of discrimination against black baseball players, highlighting some of the outstanding players and their achievements.
Eleven year old Thomas talks his grandfather into driving all the way across Florida to meet Coco Grimes, an old man who remembers Negro League baseball, but the actual encounter proves to be bittersweet.
