"If you were only white" [electronic resource] : 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
Main Author: Spivey, Donald
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2012.
Series:Sports and American culture series
Subjects:
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.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Warm-ups : a prelude
  • 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.