Book Descriptions

for Black Diamond by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr.

From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

After being shut out of major league baseball for nearly a century, African-Americans formed their own leagues. Any reliable recounting of this history must include examples of the heroes on and off the diamond, the scoundrels who sabotaged efforts to provide talented black athletes with a way to compete for audiences across the nation, and the conditions of pay and daily life endured by all involved in the Negro leagues. The authors meet that challenge by using primary source documents, oral histories, archival visual materials and unflinching details about acts of racism. (Ages 9-16)

CCBC Choices 1994. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994. Used with permission.

From the Publisher

A stirring tribute to the human drama, legendary heroes, infamous owners, low pay, and long bus rides that were the Negro Leagues. A 1995 Coretta Scott King Honor Book now in a striking Polaris edition.

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