Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
  • Published:
    Dec-2007
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    96
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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 and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.
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    • Apr-2019
    • Disney Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1368042899
    • ISBN13: 9781368042895
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    • Dec-2007
    • Hyperion
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786839007
    • ISBN13: 9780786839001
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    • Apr-2019
    • Disney Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1368022324
    • ISBN13: 9781368022323
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    • Apr-2019
    • Disney Hyperion
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Apr-2019
    • Disney Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1368046134
    • ISBN13: 9781368046138



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