| Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues Contributor(s): Heaphy, Leslie A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0786430753 ISBN-13: 9780786430758 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 Annotation: Nothing evokes the glory days of Negro Leagues baseball like the name of star pitcher Satchel Paige. This collection of essays and papers, based on the 9th annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, focuses on Paige and on the Kansas City Monarchs, the team he led to the Negro Leagues World Series in 1942 and 1946. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - Essays & Writings |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007020808 |
| Series: Jerry Malloy Conference |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.35" W x 9.01" (0.94 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Geographic Orientation - Missouri - Locality - Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Though Satchel Paige lived into the early 1980s, much of our information about his life and especially his career is the stuff of anecdote. He is nevertheless a central figure--arguably the central figure--in our reconstructions of Negro Leagues history. This collection of papers from the 9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference focuses on the celebrity of Satchel Paige and the team he is most closely associated with, the Kansas City Monarchs. Accounts of Paige's exploits are scrutinized and the effects of his fame, on both the contemporary perception of black baseball and its depiction in the years since, are discussed. |
