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A book of nice watercolour paintings of Negro League players with mini biographies on the facing page. The book comes with an interesting half hour DVD that contains a 1970’s era program of interviews with players. It is insightful. I think the book itself would have been improved by an appendix of statistics so that such assertions as “Josh Gibson was the black Ted Williams” could be backed up by numbers. But, its about baseball, and the pictures are beautifully done.
In the 1990s, watercolor artist Mark Chiarelli made a series of baseball cards dedicated to the players who played in the Negro Leagues. The images of these cards have been compiled into a book, along with brief profiles of the players who played the sport during a time when the Major Leagues did not accept black players (indeed, one of the profiles includes Frank Grant, who was was named the Best Player in Buffalo History for his Major League playing - before being shown the door). There are 60...
The most beautiful watercolor portraits of Negro League (Any League)greats including early Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and not to forget Double Duty Radcliffe. A smallish book that qualifies as a great coffee table keeper. Hard to put down until you see every page. Short bios accompany the images. A favorite in my (huge) baseball book collection.
(Six Word Review) Talk about forgotten legends revived.
An excellent, if bare-bones, history of the Negro Leagues, via one page thumbnails with accompanying drawings of sixty-odd of the greatest personalities and players in the game. Some you know-- whether Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays or Negro League greats like Josh Gibson or Cool Papa Bell-- but others are a little more obscure. A good book, but again, fairly simple, and marred by some amazingly common math mistakes-- a guy's bio will say 1911-1952, and they say he died at only 39 years old, for...
Interesting book about players in the Negro Leagues. The book contains beautiful watercolor photos of each player. The book reads as a decl of playing cards.
