Cool Papas and Double Duties: The All-Time Greats of the Negro Leagues

By William F. McNeil

Book Overview

Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige made their way... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786410744
• ISBN13: 9780786410743
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Informative Look at Top Negro Leaguers

This 2001 book combines biographies of several top Negro League players with a methodical effort to determine which of those stars deserve inclusion into Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Author William McNeil provides brief biographical looks at several talented but slightly second-tier (or less-remembered) players, like Mules Suttles, Biz Mackey, Turkey Stearns, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe (who lived to...