Books And References

The following books are dedicated exclusively to the subject of the Negro Leagues.

All-Time All-Stars of Black Baseball. James A. Riley, TK Publishers, Cocoa, FL 1983. A salute to what might have been the first, second and third team "all-star" teams from the Negro Leagues.
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. James A. Riley, Carroll & Graf, New York, NY 1994. This landmark reference volume is recognized as the most comprehensive work chronicling this era of baseball history.
Black Diamonds. John B. Holway, Meckler Books, Westport, CT 1989
Blackball Stars. John B. Holway, Meckler Books, Westport, CT 1989
Blacks in Baseball. Leon Hardwick, Pilot Hist. Assoc., Los Angeles, CA 1980
Buck Leonard: The Black Lou Gehrig. Buck Leonard and James A. Riley, Carroll & Graf, New York, NY 1995. The life of Negro League star Buck Leonard, by Buck Leonard, as told to James A. Riley.
Complete History of the Negro Leagues. Mark Ribowsky, Birch Lane Press, New York, NY 1995
Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-59." Larry Moffi, Jonathan Kronstadt, University of Iowa Press.
Dandy, Day, and the Devil. James A. Riley, TK Publishers, Cocoa, FL 1987. Based on exhaustive research and personal interviews, this publication is a trilogy examining the lives and careers of Negro League stars Ray Dandridge, Leon Day and Willie Wells. Foreward by Hall of Famer/ former Negro League and Major League star Monte Irvin.
Fleetwood Walker's Divided Heart. David Zang, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 1995
Don't Look Back. Mark Ribowsky, Simon & Shuster, New York, NY 1993
Fair Dealing and Clean Playing. Neil Lanctot, McFarland and Co., Jefferson, NC 1994
Get That Nigger Off the Field. Art Rust, Jr., Delacorte Press, New York, NY 1976
A Hard Road to Glory: Baseball. Arthur Ashe, Jr., Amistad Press, New York, NY 1993
History of Colored Baseball. Sol White, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 1995
Invisible Men. Donn Rogosin, Atheneum, New York, NY 1993
Josh and Satch. John B. Holway, Meckler Books, New York, NY 1991
Josh Gibson. William Brashler, Harper & Row, New York, NY 1978
The Kansas City Monarchs. Janet Bruce, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1985
A Man and His Diamonds. Charles Whitehead, Vantage Press, New York, NY, 1980
Maybe I'll Pitch Forever. Satchel Paige, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY 1961
My Life in the Negro Leagues. Wilmer Fields, Meckler Books, Westport, CT 1992
Negro Baseball Leagues. Phil Dixon, Amereon House, Mattituck, NY 1992
The Negro Leagues. David Craft, Friedman Publishing Group., New York, NY 1993
The Negro Leagues Book. Dick Clark and Larry Lester, SABR, Cleveland, OH 1994
Nice Guys Finish First: The Autobiography of Monte Irvin. Monte Irvin and James A. Riley, Carroll & Graf, New York, NY 1996. Written in conjunction with James Riley. Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, the original choice of the Negro League owners to be the player to break the color line, tells his inspiring story.
Only the Ball Was White. Robert Peterson, Prentice Hall-Hall, Inglewood Cliffs, NJ 1970
A Pictorial Negro League Legends Album. Robert D. Retort, Retort Enterprises, New Castle, PA 1992
Pitchin' Man. Satchel Paige, Cleveland News, Cleveland, OH 1948
The Pittsburgh Crawfords. James Bankes, William C. Brown, Dubuque, IA 1991
Sandlot Seasons. Rob Ruck, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL 1987
Sol White Baseball Guide. Sol White, Camden House, Columbia, SC 1984
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe. Kyle McNary, McNary Publishing, Minneapolis, MN 1994
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars. Richard Bak, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1994
Twenty Years Too Soon. Quincy Trouppe, S & S Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA 1977
When the Game was Black and White. Bruce Chadwick, Abbeville Press, New York, NY 1975.

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1601 East 18th Street (located in the 18th and Vine Historical District)
Kansas City, MO 64108-1646

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Sunday 12:00 noon - 4:30 p.m.
Closed Monday

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Children $1.00

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