Only the ball was white
Subtitle: a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams
By: by Robert Peterson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History; African American baseball players -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Includes index.