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Author Leibforth, Bill, author.

Title Baseball's forgotten black heroes / Bill Leibforth.

Publication Info. [Parker, Colorado] : Outskirts Press, [2019]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2059102~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  796.3570922 LEI    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  796.3570922 LEI    AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 352 pages ; 23 cm
Summary In 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the game of baseball by becoming the first black player on a modern day major league team. Jackie made history with the Brooklyn Dodgers and this story is about Jackie and the seventeen players who followed him. These Black Heroes challenged the status quo and policies of team owners and were part of the first wave of black players who played on the sixteen major league teams that existed in 1947. It was not until 1959 (three years after Jackie retired) that the last of the sixteen teams added a black player to their roster.
Subject African American baseball players -- Biography.
Baseball players -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports.
Local Subject LOCAL AUTHOR.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781977205193
1977205194
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