Black Baseball in Pittsburgh
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...but starving for knowledge."
- Larry Lester
 
 
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Publication Date: 
March 19 2001
Author: 
Larry Lester and Sammy J. Miller
Publisher: 
Arcadia Publishing
Details: 
Paperback: 128 pages, 160 photographs
ISBN 10: 
0738505315
ISBN 13: 
978-0738505312
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Black Baseball in Pittsburgh chronicles the history of the Negro League in the Steel City from the Homestead Grays in the 1910s to the great Pittsburgh Crawfords teams of the 1930s and through the 1950s’. Here, you will discover legends such as “Smokey” Joe Williams, the famed “Thunder Twins”-- Josh Gibson, the Steel City’s slugger supreme and Buck Leonard, the king of Negro League first basemen.