Comeback Season : : my Unlikely Story of Friendship With the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
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Prologue -- The collector -- Finding my way into sports -- Hello, Negro Leagues -- The history of Black baseball in America -- Seeing the hard truth -- Going pro -- The Birmingham gamble -- Family reunion -- Taking on the pensions -- Hard work, rewarded -- Unexpected attention -- College days -- My old friends -- The comeback.
"The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron-a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston-and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982153601
1982153601
9781982153618
198215361X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chiles, Nick,
SUBJECTS
Perron, Cam -- Friends and associates.
Negro leagues -- History.
African American baseball players -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.