Description
Product ID: | 9781368042895 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Satchel Paige |
Subtitle: | Striking Out Jim Crow |
Authors: | Author: James Sturm |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's / Teenage) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Disney Press |
Publisher Name: | Disney Book Publishing Inc. |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-06-25 |