Historians may think I have a tendency to overstate the importance of baseball upon the Civil Rights Movement, however, James Sturm and Rich Tommaso have written a book which acutely represents the historical significance of baseball and stars like Satchel Paige.

When I began reading the book, I thought it would be a Satchel Paige biography in the form of a graphic novel; but its actuality is even better. There is a two page introduction on Paige at the start, but after that he is featured in only a few frames throughout the book. Instead of detailing Paige's life, the book portrays the life of a sharecropper on a cotton farm in Alabama during the 1930s. The description (in both words and pictures) of his reality is contrasted with Satchel Paige's visit to town and a realization of possibility.

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is everything a book should be.