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Author:
Spivey, Donald.
Title:
"If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige / Donald Spivey.
Publisher:
University of Missouri Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxv, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Paige, Satchel,--1906-1982.
Baseball players--United States--Biography.
African American baseball players--United States--Biography.
Pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.
Discrimination in sports--United States.
Negro leagues--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (p. 283-333) and index.
Contents:
Without a satchel -- On the mount -- "If you were only white" --Turning the Paige -- Blackballing the Great Depression -- How the West was won -- Baseball diplomacy -- The fugitive -- Lazarus -- Double V -- Integration -- Center stage in the white arena -- Ninth inning -- Extra innings.
Summary:
Spivey follows Paige from his birth in Alabama in 1906 to his death in Kansas City in 1982, detailing the challenges Paige faced battling the color line in America and recounting his tests and triumphs in baseball.
Series:
Sports and American culture series.
ISBN:
0826219780
9780826219787
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

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