Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow
Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This is a fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero.
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- ISBN: 0786839015
- ISBN: 9780786839018
- ISBN: 0786839007
- ISBN: 9780786839001
- Physical Description 89 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher New York, N.Y. : Jump at the Sun : [2007]
- Copyright ©2007
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Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 1.0 119754. Reading Counts RC 3-5 4.6 5 Quiz: 42894 Guided reading level: X. |
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Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905? ? 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades.& Â Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction.& Â He made a point of writing his own history'and then re-writing it.& Â A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League?'s hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist?'s eye to Paige?'s story.& Â Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South.& Â In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American. & Â