African American Baseball

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    • The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
    • By: Jeremy Beer
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

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    • By: Gail Herman
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic skill, it was his strength of character that secured his place in sports history....

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    • The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball
    • By: Luke Epplin
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • The riveting story of four men - Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige - whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond....

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    • The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
    • By: Neil Lanctot
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history....

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    • Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
    • By: Bruce Markusen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports....

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    • African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson
    • By: Bill Kirwin
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Here, gathered for the first time, are the best essays from NINE that center on the complex and multifaceted topic of African Americans in baseball....

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    • The Story of Negro League Baseball
    • By: Kadir Nelson
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost....

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    • 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
    • By: Wil Haygood
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio, did something no team from one school had ever done before....

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    • Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
    • By: Howard Bryant
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. As journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes....

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    • The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
    • By: Kostya Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • True is a probing, richly detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s―and America’s―most significant figures....

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    • The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Rocco Constantino
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier, Rocco Constantino chronicles the history of generations of ballplayers, showing how African Americans have influenced baseball from the 1800s to the present....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League
    • By: Martha Ackmann
    • Narrated by: April Matthis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Documenting multiple challenges at every turn - as a target for racism from society at large and sexism both inside and outside of the Negro League - this is the unique story of the first woman to play professional baseball on a men's team, breaking barriers in sports....

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    • The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
    • By: Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame explores how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s game

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    • The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line
    • By: William C. Kashatus
    • Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies....

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    • The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
    • By: Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
    • Narrated by: Torian Brackett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From two prominent Robinson scholars comes an enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights....

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    • Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
    • By: James Overmyer
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team....

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    • Celebrating Baseball's Unsung Heroes (Spectacular Sports)
    • By: Matt Doeden
    • Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
    • Series: Spectacular Sports Series
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Discover the Negro Leagues in this book packed full of facts and stories. Learn about the biggest games and wildest moments of the Negro Leagues era, as well as some of the greatest (and least well-known) players....

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    • The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
    • By: Tom Dunkel
    • Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues, car dealer Neil Churchill signed the best players he could find, regardless of race....

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