Teammates & Rivals: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the Pittsburgh Crawfords

Posted by on Sep 8, 2025 in | Comments Off on Teammates & Rivals: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the Pittsburgh Crawfords On September 10, 1942, the Negro American League champion Kansas City Monarchs faced the Negro National League champion Homestead Grays at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. It was Game Two of a best-of-seven matchup that would determine the World Series of Black baseball. The Monarchs had taken a one-game lead in the series the previous day, handily defeating the Grays, 8–0. Homestead was out for...
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Biz Mackey, a Giant Behind the Plate by Rich Westcott

Posted by on Nov 12, 2019 in | Comments Off on Biz Mackey, a Giant Behind the Plate by Rich Westcott Biz Mackey, a Giant behind the Plate The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher by Rich Westcott Temple University Press, 208 pp., cloth $27.50 Rich Westcott, former president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association, commonly maintains that professional baseball, with its complicated racial history, “is not one that can be easily digested.” While true, the career of James...
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