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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, (c)2008.Description: 88 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780786808328
LOC classification:
  • GV875 .W437 2008
  • GV875
Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play -- Life in the Negro leagues -- Racket ball: Negro League owners -- The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars -- Latin America: baseball in paradise -- Good exhibition: the Negro leagues vs. the white leagues -- Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game -- Then came Jackie Robinson -- The end of the Negro leagues -- Negro leaguers who made it to the major leagues/ Negro leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Awards:
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2009.
  • Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2009.
  • Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2009.
Subject: Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) G. Allen Fleece Library JUVENILE COLLECTION Fiction GV875.A1N45 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001441175

Includes bibliographies and index.

Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2009.

Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2009.

Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 2009.

Beginnings -- A different brand of baseball: Negro League game play -- Life in the Negro leagues -- Racket ball: Negro League owners -- The greatest baseball players in the world: Negro League All-Stars -- Latin America: baseball in paradise -- Good exhibition: the Negro leagues vs. the white leagues -- Wartime heroes: World War II and the Negro League All-Star game -- Then came Jackie Robinson -- The end of the Negro leagues -- Negro leaguers who made it to the major leagues/ Negro leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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