Baseball and the Color Line - Thomas W. Gilbert - Paperback

This account is full of excerpts from historical texts & newspaper accounts discussing how attitudes about segregation in baseball have changed. It relates Paige's baseball career & how, in the 1930s & 1940s, he was better known & better paid than most major league players. Appendix with professional baseball leagues chronology, source notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Part of the African-American Experience series.Gilbert, Thomas W. is the author of 'Baseball and the Color Line - Thomas W. Gilbert - Paperback' with ISBN 9780531157473 and ISBN 0531157474.