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Dec 19, 2020 · Robert W. Peterson wrote “Only the Ball was White,” a history of the Negro Leagues Isaiah Harris is safe at home in the Negro American League All-Star game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1954.
Feb 16, 2006 · By Richard Goldstein. Feb. 16, 2006. Robert W. Peterson, whose pioneering history of the Negro leagues, "Only the Ball Was White," recaptured a lost era in baseball history and a rich facet of ...
Biography. Peterson was born in 1925 in Warren, Pennsylvania. He played baseball while attending Upsala College, and later was a writer and editor with the New York World-Telegram newspaper, which folded in 1966. Peterson's 1970 chronicle of Negro league baseball entitled Only the Ball Was White was hailed by The New York Times as having ...
Jan 1, 1970 · I’m trying to read all the important baseball books and this one from 1970 is just that. Really, the first major book to be written about Negro League Baseball, existing before players like Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Peterson was important in getting that to happen. In recent years, Negro ...
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Sep 7, 1992 · In addition to these accounts, the book includes yearly Negro League standings and an all-time register of players and officials, making the book a treasure trove of baseball information and lore. The book reminds us that what was often considered the “Golden Age” of baseball was also the era of Jim Crow.
Feb 18, 2006 · By Matt Schudel. February 18, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Robert W. Peterson, author of a pioneering study of baseball history that ushered in an era of belated recognition for the stars of the old ...
The Negro Leagues had been a struggling part of baseball's history for many years until it disbanded in 1951, a few years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Peterson felt that the many talented players of that league who never got a chance to play in the majors should be recognized for their talent.
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