Black Baseball in Pittsburgh

by Sammy J. Miller, Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller

Book Overview

Black Baseball in Pittsburgh chronicles the history of the Negro League in the Steel City from the Homestead Grays in the 1910s to the great Pittsburgh Crawfords teams of the 1930s and through the 1950s.

When the Negro National League was formed in Kansas City in 1920, a new chapter in America's sports history had begun. Here, you will meet legends such as Smokey Joe Williams, the famed Thunder Twins, Josh Gibson, the Steel City's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738505315
• ISBN13: 9780738505312
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"