Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh unused example inequally fine dust jacket. First printing (no statement as is correct). Hardcover. xxiii+ 421 pp. with index, statistical appendix. Illustrated with scarce photos and reproducitons. Introduction by Jules Tygiel. Produced with the cooperation of the National Baseball hall of Fame and Museum as a companion to the 2006 Hall of Fame induction in which some 17 Black, African American , Latin and other Negro League related persons (including the Hall's only woman member, Effa Manley) were finally chosen by the Negro Leagues Committee. This work is considered among the most comprehensive and best researched histories of the old Negro Leagues and of African Ameircans in profesisonal baseball. Fine / fine. Item #E27641
ISBN: 9780792253068
Price: $34.50