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9780671659882 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, April 15, 1989), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Recounts the life and career of the flamboyant, outspoken, and controversial black pitcher, tracing his sometimes outrageous way from Los Angeles childhood, through eight seasons with Pittsburgh, to his current stand with the Yankees
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9780029017807 | Macmillan Coll Div, July 1, 1986, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Describes how Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, recounts the problems he faced after becoming a popular celebrity, and looks at the ideals which guided his life
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9780252073694 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, May 19, 2006), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens would nevertheless go on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international superstar overnight and exploding Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy in the process.
9780029017609 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, March 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Describes how Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, recounts the problems he faced after becoming a popular celebrity, and looks at the ideals which guided his life
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9780613188142 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $29.20 | About this edition: Describes how Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, recounts the problems he faced after becoming a popular celebrity, and looks at the ideals which guided his life
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9780517205013 | Gramercy, December 1, 1998, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Tells the forgotten story of African American star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line
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9780195076370 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 1992), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line
9780070495999, titled "Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All Black Professional Teams" | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill, March 1, 1984), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Comprehensive account of the players and professional teams of Black baseball from 1898 to 1946, before Blacks were admitted to the major leagues
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9780933201149 | Bicycle Books, August 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: World champion at 19.
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9780801853036 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 9, 1996), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: World champion at 19.
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9781567430066 | New rev su edition (Amistad Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, 1610-1918 (Vol 1) covers the period from 1619, when Africans were first brought to these shores as slaves, to 1918, the end of the First World War.
9780446710060 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A history of black athletes spanning three hundred years traces the history of sports to African, culture, features profiles of black athletic stars, and explores the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and other events on black sports
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9780887360947 | Mecklermedia, March 1, 1988, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Looks at the history of the Black major leagues, offers profiles of some of the top players, and describes the contributions of Black professional baseball
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9780881847642 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, February 1, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: For 60 years professional baseball was a segregated sport.
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National Football League Hall of Fame player Jim Brown describes what it means to be an athlete and recounts behind-the-scenes stories involving sex, the Hollywood fast lane, and his encounters with the law
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9780821728574 | Kensington Pub Corp, August 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Jim tells what it means to be an athlete, with sex, Hollywood, drugs, and women as fringe benefits
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9780821731147 | Reprint edition (Kensington Pub Corp, August 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: National Football League Hall of Fame player Jim Brown describes what it means to be an athlete and recounts behind-the-scenes stories involving sex, the Hollywood fast lane, and his encounters with the law
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The former star running back recounts his two years with the champion Dallas Cowboys, his subsequent years in the NFL and WFL and the decline of the Cowboys
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9780446514040 | Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The former star running back recounts his two years with the champion Dallas Cowboys, his subsequent years in the NFL and WFL and the decline of the Cowboys
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9780446357142 | Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The former star running back recounts his two years with the champion Dallas Cowboys, his subsequent years in the NFL and WFL and the decline of the Cowboys
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9780899196572 | Ticknor & Fields, April 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the tumultuous career of a baseball superstar who has also seen his share of trouble--from ongoing wars with the baseball establishment to on-the-field brawls, to his experience as the first black player in Arkansas
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9780671632922 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The legendary athlete discusses his greatest plays, his greatest teammates and opponents, his personal life, his days in the Negro Leagues, contemporary baseball, and his most bitter moment in major league baseball
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9780671678364 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: The legendary athlete discusses his greatest plays, his greatest teammates and opponents, his personal life, his days in the Negro Leagues, Contemporary baseball, and his most bitter moment in major league baseball
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9780606043137 | Demco Media, March 1, 1989, cover price $10.55 | About this edition: The legendary athlete discusses his greatest plays, his greatest teammates and opponents, his personal life, his days in the Negro Leagues, Contemporary baseball, and his most bitter moment in major league baseball
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9780393024678, titled "Winfield: A Player's Life" | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shares the story of the New York Yankees superstar, from his beginnings in St.
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9780380707096 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Shares the story of the New York Yankees superstar, from his beginnings in St.
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9780670823017 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The All-Pro wide receiver recounts his childhood in Tacoma, college days during the tumultuous 1960s, playing with the St.
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9780070531833 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: One of baseball's finest players offers frank and outspoken commentary on the prejudice he has suffered as a black athlete, the continuing problem of racial tension off the field, serious drug and alcohol abuse problems in his sport, and unfair spending and training practices
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9780809245949 | Contemporary Books, May 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Dubbed 'Wizard' for his on-field magic, the Saint Louis Cardinals' All-Star shortstop recounts his youth in riot-torn Watts and his climb to become baseball's highest paid player, and offers fresh and outspoken opinions on very aspect of baseball today
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9780313259951 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1988, cover price $112.95 | About this edition: As the second black major league baseball player, following Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby has never received the acclaim accorded to Robinson; yet his experiences of segregation and racial invective, and his courage and ability to excel in the face of almost overwhelming circumstances, were equivalent.
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9780275929848 | Praeger Pub Text, March 3, 1988, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of Doby, the first Black to play in the American League, looks at his family life, and describes his encounters with prejudice
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9780840742209 | Thomas Nelson Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The former star player for the Harlem Globetrotters recounts how he got his start in basketball, and explains how Christian faith became an important part of his life
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Traces the life of the first Black man to break baseball's color line and reveals how Robinson opened the way for Blacks and minorities to enter into the mainstream of American life
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9780531150429 | Franklin Watts, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the first Black man to break baseball's color line and reveals how Robinson opened the way for Blacks and minorities to enter into the mainstream of American life
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Blending biography and social history, this portrait of one of the first Black Americans to win fame and respect in the twentieth century draws on new interview material and translations from German press coverage
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9780684184623 | Scribner, October 1, 1985, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Blending biography and social history, this portrait of one of the first Black Americans to win fame and respect in the twentieth century draws on new interview material and translations from German press coverage
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9780385230933 | Doubleday, April 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The extraordinary New York Mets rookie pitcher recalls his first major league season, a season highlighted by electric excitement among fans, a strikeout shootout at the All-Star Game, and an unprecedented strikeout record
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9780029266403 | Free Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A biography of Black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson details his boxing career and his extravagant, unconventional personal life, which led to his persecution by the white society of early twentieth-century America
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9780029269008 | Free Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows.
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9780394532431 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of Reggie Jackson, describes his career as a baseball player, and depicts the experience of being a member of the New York Yankees
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9780313233272 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 1983, cover price $51.95
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Product Description: Ernest Ellis Cashmore is a leading writer in both leisure studies and the sociology of race. In this fascinating work he uses his expertise to explore the problems and contradictions faced by black sportsmen.
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9780710090546 | Routledge, October 1, 1982, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Ernest Ellis Cashmore is a leading writer in both leisure studies and the sociology of race.
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9780025416802 | Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Traces the lives of Jackie Robinson, the first Black to play in the major leagues, and Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers' general manager who was committed to breaking baseball's color barrier
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9780313229763 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 1, 1981, cover price $98.95
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