Only the Ball Was White

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Intended audience: Intermediate grades through adult

Issued also as videorecording

Looks back at the time when major U.S. baseball leagues refused to hire Black athletes. Using archival footage, photographs, and interviews with former athletes, narrator Paul Winfield recounts the number of unrecognized athletes, some of whom, such as Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, were later hired by the leagues

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