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Must reading for both its sports significance and its look at a fascinating slice of American history.

Accompanied by nearly 600 photographs (many published here for the first time) The Negro Baseball Leagues chronicles the triumphs and hardships of black baseball from its beginnings after the Civil War to the mid-1950s.

Winner of the Spitball Prize for Best Sports Book 1992.

Winner of USA Today's Best Sports Book 1992.