"If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige / Donald Spivey.

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"Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever--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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sports and American culture series.
Main Author: Spivey, Donald
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Sports and American culture series.
Subjects:
Paige, Satchel, > 1906-1982.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
African American baseball players > Biography.
Pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography.
Discrimination in sports > United States.
Negro leagues > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xxv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Variant Title:
Leroy "Satchel" Paige.
Format: Book
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.