Gilbert black
(2018)
By: Barr, Ron

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Happyland, 2018
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (22 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781987100617 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13753989, 1987100611 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13753989
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Ron Barr, Gilbert Black

One of the last living Negro American League players, Gilbert Black of the Indianapolis Clowns talks about growing up in NYC and sneaking into the Polo Grounds to watch baseball games as a child. Black recalls the segregation and discrimination he and other black baseball players faced in the major leagues, including being made to sleep outside on a porch at training camp with the Atlanta Braves

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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