Author: Jim Reisler
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: black, covered, negro, leagues, sportswriters, articles, writers, baseball, anthology
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786429070
ISBN-13: 9780786429073

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball’s Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers, they faced the same conditions as the leagues’ players, from discrimination to endless travel. Yet it was through their writings that the public, both black and white w