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Title: Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Leagues (Baseball the American Epic) by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Jim O'Connor ISBN: 067986749X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent juvenile history of the Negro Leagues
Comment: Every year right before Opening Day I watch the Ken Burns documentary "Baseball," which is why it is clear to me that "Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro Leagues" is not simply a watered down version on what appears in the documentary series or its companion volume. This book, authored by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns with Jim O'Connor, has as much new information about its subject as it has borrowed from the PBS television documentary on which it is based. This means you will find everything you remember from "Baseball," such as the stories about Moses Fleetwood Walker and Josh Gibson, along with much more. "Shadow Ball" has seven chapters: (1) A Gentleman's Agreement looks at how blacks were kept out of the major and minor leagues; (2) Barnstorming tells how black baseball teams that traveled around the country looking for games; (3) Two Innings Ahead of Everyone Else covers how Rube Foster created the Negro Leagues; (4) The Guy People Wanted to See tells about Satchel Paige and the other big draws of the Negro Leagues, such as Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard; (5) The Great Experiment, of course, is the story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers; (6) The Oldest Rookie in the Game returns the focus to Satchel Paige, as well as other early black stars in the Major Leagues; and (7) The Death Knell for Out Baseball contrasts the success of black players like Hank Aaron in the Majors with the quick demise of the Negro Leagues once the racial barrier was gone.
Illustrated with dozens of photographs, several of which are captioned with memorable quotations, "Shadow Ball" is a nice addition to your collection of baseball books, whether as an introduction to the history of black baseball in America or as a chance to learn more about the topic. This is one of a series of three volumes based on the "Baseball Documentary," the others being "25 Great Moments" and "Who Invented the Game?" (the latter is grossly misnamed since it is essentially a history of baseball and pretty much a condensed version of the documentary).
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Title: Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie, Mark Graham ISBN: 0689801149 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tight Times (Picture Puffins) by Barbara Shook Hazen, Trina Schart Hyman ISBN: 0140504427 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Teammates by Peter Golenbock, Paul Bacon ISBN: 0152842861 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: See the Ocean by Estelle Condra, Linda Crockett-Blassingame ISBN: 1590930673 Publisher: Eager Minds Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, Tatsuro Kiuchi ISBN: 0152014837 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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