A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete

This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story. It is also a social history of the nation. Using the statistics of the past -- someknown and hidden, others unknown and only recently ferreted out -- Ashe puts the African-American baseball player back into the game. This volume, devoted completely to the African-American's participation in baseball, tells the stories and records of club, college and professional players. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.