Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
- ISBN-10
- 0786839007
- ISBN-13
- 9780786839001
- Series
- Satchel Paige
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-18
- Publisher
- Jump At The Sun
- Author
- James Sturm
Description
Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905? – 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 and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American. /DIVDIV
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