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  • 'I Will Never Forget'
    Brent Kelley
    This book continues the riches of two highly praised previous volumes, Voices from the Negro Leagues 'interesting...solid'--MultiCultural Review) and The Negro Leagues Revisited ('wonderful'--Booklist; 'voluminous...top-notch'--Public Library Quarterly). The players interviewed in this new book of interviews are Bill Bethea, John 'Scoop' Brown, Paul Casanova, Jim Colzie, B...
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    58,46 €

  • The Negro Leagues Revisited
    Brent Kelley
    This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s. Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big...
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    59,13 €

  • Baseball’s Bonus Babies
    Brent Kelley
    In the mid-1940s, the post-war United States was a prosperous country, and baseball had its own share of this prosperity. An expanding minor league led to unprecedented competition for young baseball talent. The ill-conceived idea of a signing bonus quickly introduced an element of financial competition into the sport of baseball, much to the discomfort of many minor league ...
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    42,92 €

  • Voices from the Negro Leagues
    Brent Kelley
    Baseball lore is replete with the tales of such legendary Negro League stars as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson and a few others. But the stories of the many other African Americans, both stars and journeymen, have largely been forgotten. These were the men who barnstormed the country, playing in loosely organized leagues and eking out a living doing what they did...
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    58,95 €

  • The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957
    Brent P. Kelley
    The San Francisco Seals were members of baseball’s Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1958. Arguably the most successful minor league franchise ever, the Seals held the minor league attendance record from 1946 until it was broken by Louisville in the 1980s, and remained independently owned until 1956. The Seals were also Joe DiMaggio’s first team and many another major lea...
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    42,56 €

  • The Pastime in Turbulence
    Brent Kelley
    The 1940s were years of change in the world of baseball. Minor league free agents were introduced to the game in 1940 by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and player after player left to join the war effort with players both below and well above draft age completing the rosters; 1946 marked the first time that two National League teams, ...
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    57,02 €