Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series

by Frederick C. Bush, Norm King, Chris Rainey, et al.

This book was inspired by the last Negro League World Series ever played and presents biographies of the players on the two contending teams in 1948 - the Birmingham Black Barons and the Homestead Grays - as well as the managers, the owners, and articles on the ballparks the teams called home.

Also included are articles that recap the season's two East-West All-Star Games, the Negro National League and Negro American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943816557
• ISBN13: 9781943816552
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"