A Negro League Scrapbook
Written by: Carole Boston Weatherford
Elementary and Junior High Grades
"An engaging overview, richly augmented by archival photographs. Weatherford's text covers a great deal of ground, with a summation of the history of the Negro Leagues and sections on the pitchers, hitters, utility men, various teams, and so forth. Each topic is briefly covered on a spread of text with black-and-white photos and full-color realia designed to look like a scrapbook. Topics are introduced with a few lines of verse. Beginning with a thoughtful foreword by Buck O'Neil, the book is especially successful in conveying the significance of the Negro Leagues to the black community, and in detailing the realities of segregation."
School Library Journal Review
Web Resources:
http://www.caroleweatherford.com/baseball.htm
http://www.nlbpa.com/
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