Catching Dreams
Subtitle: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues (Sports and Entertainment)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780815605638
Subjects: Baseball; Biography: sport; Black studies; Sports - Baseball; History; Biography; United States; Blacks And Sports; People of Color; Sports & Recreation; Biography / Autobiography; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Baseball - History; African American baseball players; Negro leagues; Robinson, Frazier,; 1910-1997; Baseball players
Description: "In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the black baseball diamond through a catcher's mask. In 1939, at the age of 29 - after playing professional baseball for twelve years - Frazier Robinson caught for the legendary Satchel Paige in barnstorming games from New Orleans to Walla Walla."--BOOK JACKET.

"Robinson played several more seasons in the Negro Leagues before finishing his career in Canada. While his career was a solid one, it was less spectacular than that of his friend and Hall-of-Famer, Satchel Paige, and so more typical of the experience of most Negro Leaguers."--BOOK JACKET.

"Robinson covers, in remarkable detail, the personal perspective of the men, the teams, and the times that shaped this uniquely American subculture. From playing catcher for obscure industrial teams to barnstorming with Satchel Paige, he chronologically traces his nationwide path through the 1920s, 3̀0s, 4̀0s, and early 5̀0s."--BOOK JACKET.