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Author Wheeler, Lonnie, author.

Title The bona fide legend of Cool Papa Bell : speed, grace, and the Negro Leagues / Lonnie Wheeler.

Publication Info. New York : Abrams Press, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  796.357 WHE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  B BELL COOL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 796.357 WHEELER DISC 1-8    Check Shelf
Description viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Documents the life of the Negro League star and Hall of Famer, tracing Bell's sharecropping heritage, his extraordinary switch-hitting talents, and how Major League Baseball's racial barriers impacted his career.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
Contents Author's note -- Prologue: Looking over Jordan -- Jamie Nichols -- The slaughterhouse -- Tricky ball -- The Turkey Stearnes effect -- The stars come out -- Willie's girl -- We'll always have Cuba -- Lighting up big leaguers -- "The greatest negro baseball team ever seen" -- Mutiny -- Beholding Josh Gibson -- See you in Chicago -- Snookering Satchel -- The quintessential Crawfords -- Limbo -- The dictator's campaign for reelection -- Railroad tracks in the outfield -- The land of opportunity -- Fishing on the fourth of July -- Slugger in a straitjacket -- Ground balls to Jackie's backhand -- Stepping aside -- A basket of fruit -- Obscurity -- The call that changed everything -- Cool Papa Bell Avenue -- Epilogue.
Subject Bell, Cool Papa, 1903-1991.
African American baseball players -- Biography.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Negro leagues -- History.
Bell, Cool Papa, 1903-1991. (OCoLC)fst00463442
African American baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00799042
Baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00828007
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN 9781419750489
1419750488
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