Donald Spivey

Broschiertes Buch

If You Were Only White

The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige

Beschreibung

Explores the legacy of an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy "Satchel” Paige was arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher.

Autor

Donald Spivey is Professor of History at the University of Miami and the author or editor of five books, including Fire from the Soul: A History of the African-American Struggle. He lives in Palmetto Bay, Florida.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780826220141
• ISBN-10: 0826220142
• Artikelnr.: 37782564