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Sturm, James. Satchel Paige - Striking Out Jim Crow. Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
eng

James Sturm

Satchel Paige

Striking Out Jim Crow
  • Grand Central Publishing
  • 2019
  • Gebunden
  • 96 Seiten
  • ISBN 9781368022323

Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South. In stark prose and powerful graphics, author

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and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.

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