Full name: Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players...

Author: Robert Peterson Year: 1970 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780195076370 9780517205013 0517205017

Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line Similar books: Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour Baseball Dynasties by Rob Neyer Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy The Politics of Glory by Bill James October Men by Roger Kahn The Heart of the Order by Thomas Boswell Five Seasons by Roger Angell The Long Season by Jim Brosnan How Life Imitates the World Series by Thomas Boswell Ty and The Babe by Tom Stanton Baseball in the Garden of Eden by John Thorn The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss Showtime by Jeff Pearlman Among the Thugs by Bill Buford The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling