The Negro leagues
Subtitle: the story of Black baseball
By: Jacob Margolies.
Contributors: Peterson, Robert, 1925-
Series: An African-American experience
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Negro leagues -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Negro leagues -- History.; Baseball -- History.; African Americans -- Biography.; Baseball players.; Discrimination in sports.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 123) and index.
Appendix reprinted from Only the ball was white / Robert Peterson. c1970.