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

By Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo

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 into the Hall of Fame. For this book, more than 50 former Negro League players and baseball historians were asked to vote for players who they believe should have been included in the Hall of Fame, and to select an All-Time Negro League All-Star Team. In addition to presenting and discussing their choices, the book profiles the lives and careers of the players selected. Appendices include rosters of the players and historians who voted. 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

An exciting blend of music and mystery!!

I'm not a big book reader because my time is limited so I have to pick and choose. I definitely picked the right one! I have a music background and this one was right on the money. Great characters and compelling story lines kept me wanting to read more and more. Am looking forward to his new book.

A Jazzed Up Murder

As a mystery writer with my first novel in initial release, I genuinely enjoyed Bill Moody's BIRD LIVES. In this novel, Evan Horne would like to concentrate on his musical comeback, but the Feds have different plans. The FBI convinces Horne to solve a strange series of murders. Someone is killing off "smooth" jazz musicians. All right, so those folks perhaps ought to die, but Horne needs to catch the killer anyway. BIRD...

A Good Summer Read

Bill Moody's descriptions of music as it is being played is the stuff of genius. Especially interesting is his description of the ear splitting "smooth jazz" concert. Bird Lives! is a good whodunit that could have been better had the author chosen to stick more with the investigation and explored the rift between traditional and smooth jazz more thoroughly rather than dwelling on Evan Horne's personal quandaries. Despite...

This man knows his jazz.

You can tell this man knows about jazz; the music, the musicians and the vocabulary. He can also tell a good story. I found it hard to put down. I've read all of Moody's books and liked them all, but this one is my favorite.

The magic in this book is in the music

He was feeling real good with his triumphant return as a jazz pianist after a year's absence. However, Evan Horne's elation is muted when he finds out that someone stabbed to death saxophone star Ty Rodman. Santa Monica police officer Danny Cooper asks Evan, who has been involved in previous investigations where murder and music mixed, to assist on this case. Evan learns that someone wrote "BIRD LIVES" on the wall...