We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.
2008
GV875.A1 N45 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.
Author
Nelson, Kadir.
ISBN
9780786808328 (hardcover)
0786808322 (hardcover)
0786808322 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
88 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm
Call Number
GV875.A1 N45 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.357/640973
Summary
The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay to do the one thing they loved more than anything else in the world: play ball. Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
900 Lexile.
Awards
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2009.
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2009.
Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2009.
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book, 2009
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2009.
Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2009.
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book, 2009
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Table of Contents
Beginnings
A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play
Life in the Negro leagues
Racket ball: Negro League owners
The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars
Latin America: baseball in paradise
Good exhibition: the Negro leagues vs. the white leagues
Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game
Then came Jackie Robinson
The end of the Negro leagues
Negro leaguers who made it to the major leagues / Negro leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play
Life in the Negro leagues
Racket ball: Negro League owners
The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars
Latin America: baseball in paradise
Good exhibition: the Negro leagues vs. the white leagues
Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game
Then came Jackie Robinson
The end of the Negro leagues
Negro leaguers who made it to the major leagues / Negro leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.