Bibliography - Negro Baseball Leagues and Baseball Players

BOOKS

Special Collections

Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
[DMJ R B GIBSON]

Chadwick, Bruce. When the Game was Black and White: the Illustrated History of the
Negro Leagues. New York: Abbeville Press, 1992.
[DMJ R 796.357097 CH]

Curtis, Gavin. The Bat Boy and His Violin. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.
[CSK E R CURTIS]

Dixon, Phil. The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955: a Photographic History. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon House, 1992.
[DPW R 796.357 DI]

Heaphy, Leslie. Shadowed Diamonds: The Growth and Decline of the Negro Leagues. Diss. University of Toledo. 1995. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1995. 9601621
[UMI R 796.357 HE]

Henderson, Edwin B. The Negro in Sports. Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers  Inc., 1939.
[DMJ R 796.0973 HE]

Holway, John B. Josh and Satch: the Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. Wesport, CT: Meckler Publishing, 1991
[DMJ R 796.3570 HO]

Howard, Darrell J. "Sunday coming": Black Baseball in Virginia. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.
[SP COL R 796.35764 HO]

McKissack, Pat. Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York:
Scholastic, 1994.
[SP COL J R 796.357 MC]

Lester, Larry. Black Baseball in Chicago. Chicago: Arcadia, 2000.
[796.357089 LE]

---. Black Baseball in Pittsburgh. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2001.
 [796.357089 LE]

---. Black Baseball's National Showcase: the East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
 796.357648 LE

Lowry, Philip J. Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of all 271 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1992.
[796.35706 LO]

McNeil, William. Cool Papas and Double Duties: The All-Time Greats of the Negro
Leagues. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2001.
[796.357092 MC]

---. Baseball's Other All-Stars: the Greatest Players from the Negro Leagues, the Japanese Leagues, the Mexican League, and the Pre-1960 Winter Leagues in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2000.
[796.357092 MC]

Metcalfe, Henry. A Game for All Races. New York: Metro Books, 2000.
[796.357089 ME]

The Negro Leagues Book. Ed. Dick Clark and Larry Lester. Cleveland, OH: Society for
American Baseball Research, 1994.
[796.357 NE]

Peterson, Robert. Only the Ball was White. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
[796.35709 PE]

O'Neil, Buck. I was Right on Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
[B ONEIL]

Orr, Jack. The Black Athlete: his Story in American History. New York: Lion Press 1969.
[796.0922 OR]

Reisler, Jim. Black Writers/Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1994.
[070.449796 RE]

Ribowsky, Mark. A Complete History of the Negro Leagues: 1884 to 1955. New York: Citadel, 2002.
796.357640 RI

---. Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. New York: Da Capo Press, 2000.
[796.357092 PAIGE]

---. The Power and the Darkness: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996.
[B GIBSON]

Riley, James A. The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New
York: Carroll & Graf Publishers., 1994.
[R 796.357092 RI]

---. The All-Time All-Stars of Black Baseball. U.S.: TK Publishers, 1983.
[796.3570922 RI]

Robinson, Frazier. Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.
[B ROBINSON]
 
Rogosin, Donn. Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues. New York: Atheneum, 1983.
[306.4830973 RO]

Rust, Art. "Get that Nigger off the Field!": a Sparkling, Informal History of the Black Man in Baseball. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. 
[796.357 RU]

White, Sol. Sol White's History of Colored Baseball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936. Comp. Jerry Malloy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
[R 796.357097 WH]
[796.357097 WH]

Wilson, Nick. Voices from the Pastime: Oral Histories of Surviving Major Leaguers, Negro Leaguers, Cuban Leaguers, and Writers, 1920-1934. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000.
796.0357092 WI

Young, A.S. Negro Firsts in Sports. Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co., 1963.
[R 796.0922 YO]
[796.0922 YO]

Youth Services

Billus, Kathleen. Judy Johnson. New York: Rosen Central, 2002.
[J 796.357092 JO]

Brashler, William. The Story of Negro League Baseball. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994.
[J 796.357097 BR]

Curtis, Gavin. The Bat Boy and His Violin. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, 1998.
[J E C]
[J FIC CURTIS]

Driscoll, Laura. The Negro Leagues: All-Black Baseball. New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
2002.
[J796.35764 DR]

Elster, Jean Alicia. Just Call Me Joe Joe. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2001.
[J FIC ELSTER]

Gardner, Robert. The Forgotten Players: The Story of Black Baseball in America. New
York: Walker and Co., 1993.
[J 796.357097 GA] 

Gorman, Carol. Stumptown Kid. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 2005.
[J FIC GORMAN]

Haegele, Katie. Monte Irvin. New York: Rosen Central, 2002.
[J B IRVIN]
 
Humphrey, Kathryn L. Satchel Paige. New York: Watts, 1988.
[J B PAIGE]

Macht, Norman L. Satchel Paige. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.
[J B PAIGE]

Margolies, Jacob. The Negro Leagues: The Story of Black Baseball. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.
[J 796.357 MA]

McCormack, Shaun. Cool Papa Bell. New York: Rosen Central, 2002.
[J B BELL]

Mellage, Nanette V. W. Coming Home: a Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Rum Hitter. Mahwah, NJ: Troll/BridgeWater, 2001.
[J B GIBSON]

Myers, Walter Dean. The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues. New York:
Scholastic, 2001.
[J FIC MYERS]

Payment, Simone. Buck Leonard. New York: Rosen Central, 2002.
[J B LEONARD]

Riley, James A. The Negro Leagues. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
[YA 796.35764 RI]

Ritter, Lawrence S. Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1995.
[J 796.35764 RI]

Shirley, David. Satchel Paige. New York: Chelsea House, 1993.
[J B PAIGE]

Slote, Alfred. Finding Buck McHenry. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
[J FIC SLOTE]

Twemlow, Nick. Josh Gibson. New York: Rosen Central, 2002.
[J B GIBSON]

Weatherford, Carole. A Negro League Scrapbook. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.
[J 796.35764 WE]

Winter, Jonah. Fair Ball: 14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro Leagues. New York:
Scholastic Press, 1999.
[J 796.357089 WI]

Audio/Visual

African-American Baseball Players: Interviews. Daniel L. Austin, 1995.
[SP COL VIDEO R 796.357096 AU v.1-10]

Finding Buck McHenry. Dir. Charles Burnett. Prod. Lin Oliver. DVD. Showtime Networks, 2001.
[DVD J F]

Finding Buck McHenry.  Dir. Charles Burnett. Prod. Lin Oliver. Showtime Entertainment, 2001.
[VIDEO J F]

The History of Great Black Baseball Players. Dir. Bud Morgan. Fries Home Video, 1990.
[VIDEO 796.357 HI]

Only the Ball was White. Dir. Ken Solarz. Oak Forest, Ill.: MPI Home Video, 1992.
[VIDEO 796.357 ON]