Black Writers/Black Baseball

<p> This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy Wendell Smith Frank A. Young Joe Bostic Chester L. Washington W. Rollo Wilson Dan Burley Ed Harris A.S. Doc Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers they faced the same conditions as the leagues' players from discrimination to endless travel. Yet it was through their writings that the public both black and white were given an up-close inside look at the day-to-day happenings of Negro League baseball.</p>