Black baseball's national showcase : the East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953
"The verdict is in. Whatever the deficiencies of the black baseball leagues as business enterprises and as the source of reliable statistics, no one now doubts that the front-line players were the equals of their white counterparts in professional baseball. When the best black players assembled for the annual East-West games, which for a generation paralleled the white All-Star games, the concentration of ability on the field was second to none."
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2001