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Author Perron, Cam, 1994- author.

Title Comeback season : my unlikely story of friendship with the greatest living Negro League baseball players / Cam Perron with Nick Chiles ; [foreword by Hank Aaron].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  796.357 PER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  796.357 PERRON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  796.3576 PER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Non Fiction  796.357 PER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 PER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.357 PERRON    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  796.357 PER    Check Shelf
Edition First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Description xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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.
Summary "The...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.
In 2007, at the age of twelve, Perron bought a set of Topps baseball cards featuring several players from the Negro Leagues. He started writing letters to former Negro League players asking for their autographs and a few words about their careers. The players responded with detailed stories about their glory days on the field, and the racism they faced, including run-ins with the KKK. The letters turned into phone calls, and in these conversations many of the players revealed that they had fallen out of touch with their former teammates. Perron and a small group of fellow researchers organized the first annual Negro League Players Reunion in Birmingham, Alabama in 2010. This is the story of his mission to help many players get pension money that they were owed from Major League Baseball-- and to get a Negro League museum opened in Birmingham, stocked with memorabilia. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Perron, Cam, 1994- -- Friends and associates.
Baseball -- History.
Negro leagues -- History.
African American baseball players -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
African American baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00799042
Discrimination in sports. (OCoLC)fst00895130
Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
Negro leagues. (OCoLC)fst01035591
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Chiles, Nick, author.
Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Online version: Perron, Cam, 1994- Comeback season First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2021. 9781982153625 (DLC) 2020038082
ISBN 9781982153601 hardcover
1982153601 hardcover
9781982153618 paperback
198215361X paperback
9781982153625 electronic book
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