[PDF.29mg] Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

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 | #298783 in Books |  1992-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.31 x.83 x8.00l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Illustrious|By HH|"Only the Ball Was White" is an extremely well-researched book. Its greatest asset is laying bare the basic facts of the African-American experience in professional baseball up to 1947. Peterson relies on interviews with former players and on years of newspaper accounts from the African-American press and from publications like the Sporting News to establish t| ||"[A] thorough, well-documented book....A worthy and fascinating addition to anyone's baseball library."--The New York Times Book ||"Peterson...[is] to be congratulated not only for an original subject but an excellent book for anyone who enjoys read

Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel Torrienti out at first base. The scout liked what he saw, but was disappointed in the player's appearance. "He was a light brown," recalled one of Torrienti's teammates, "and ...

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