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To Wilmer Fields, the Negro Leagues represented more than simply a collection of all-black teams. To him and to the thousands of other players, owners, managers, and fans, it was a way of life that continued to exercise its magic even after the integration of the white majors. Five major league offers notwithstanding, Fields stayed with black baseball for two and a half decades.As the author states in this charming and colorful account of life in the Negro Leagues, "as a child, my dream was to be a part of black baseball. Back then, black children had limited access to sports. We had to try and satisfy our needs in any way we could afford. We took advantage of every opportunity we had, and black baseball was one."The dream came true for Fields in 1939, after a tryout game he pitched and won for the Homestead Grays, the premier black team in America.Despite the grueling life on the road, the poor accommodations, the hectic schedules, the necessary winter games in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Latin America, and the extra seasons in Canada, Wilmer Fields never left professional black baseball. He felt it an honor to be able to play side-by-side with the true giants of the era, Josh Gibson, Luke Easter, Buck Leonard, Sam Bankhead.That sense of honor and heartfelt loyalty is evident on every page of this book, a rare and engaging portrait of a man, of an era of great baseball, and of a special group of ports figures truly deserving of the title, the Black Legends of Baseball.

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Essays discuss baseball history and its social impact

Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility

Originally published in 1948 from interviews conducted and set down by Cleveland sports writer Hal Lebovitz, this work, the autobiography of one of the most colorful and talented players to play professional baseball, is at once the story of a person and a unique and valuable document in the history of baseball.As John Holway puts it in his preface, "there were at least three Satchel Paiges. One was the star pitcher of baseball legend. Another was the droll humorist and minstrel show end-man. The third was the least known of all, the revolutionary who helped effect a sea change in the game - and in American society as a whole. Jackie Robinson symbolized the revolution, but Satchel had been one of the crucial pioneers who helped force open the door so Jackie later could walk through."In this book, we see the first two sides of Satchel Paige quite clearly. He was without a doubt a media star who used his newly acquired visibility to enchant and enliven professional sports and the literature that feeds off it. But, while his greatest playing days were spent outside the major leagues, the bottom line was that Paige - like many other Negro League greats - had vast reserves of talent to bring to white-dominated baseball, racking up major wins in his seasons with the Cleveland Indians.The story of Paige the revolutionary is here as a subtext. Under his account of his rise from poverty, his life on the road with the Kansas City Monarchs, his pitching duels with black greats, the winning of a major league contract, and his joining the Indians, there is a serious story that in many ways parallels any struggle to succeed against a battery of odds. That Paige retained his sense of humor and his ability to charm, is a testament to the man whose nickname became so thoroughly a household word and whose record established him as one of the all-time greats of baseball.