The soul of baseball
Subtitle: a road trip through Buck O'Neil's America
By: Joe Posnanski
Publisher: W. Morrow
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780060854034
Subjects: Travel; Baseball; African American baseball players; Biography; Description and travel
Description: Documents the author's cross-country travels at the side of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil, a journey during which the pair sought to recapture their love of the game, remembered O'Neil's history-making career, and explored the numerous challenges that the sport has overcome.
Table of contents: title: Warming up a riff; title: Buck O'Neil's America; title: Winter. They can't take that away from me ; Nicodemus; title: Spring. I like to recognize the tune ; A ballgame in Houston ; It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) ; Buck O'Neil day; title: Summer. Blue skies ; New York, New York ; These foolish things (remind me of you) ; Fathers and sons ; Summertime ; Gary, Indiana ; I'd rather have a memory than a dream ; Classrooms in Atlanta ; Isn't this a lovely day?; title: Autumn. I got a right to sing the blues ; A funeral in Chicago ; Washington; title: Winter (take 2). Home.