Fair Ball: 14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro Leagues - Hardcover

Winter, Jonah

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9780590394642: Fair Ball: 14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro Leagues

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0590394649 ISBN 13: 9780590394642

Publisher: Scholastic, 1999

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A striking picture book offers short biographies of fourteen outstanding players in the United States Negro Leagues, including Pop Lloyd, Oscar Charleston, and Buck Leonard.

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About the Author:

Jonah Winter spent most of his Texas childhood painting pictures, playing musical instruments, and writing poems. His many picture-book biographies include Frida, illustrated by Ana Juan, winner of an Am�ricas Honor Award, and Dizzy, illustrated by Sean Qualls, which was named a Child Best Book of 2006. Most recently, he collaborated with his illustrator mother Jeanette Winter on The Secret World of Hildegard. Winter lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information about Jonah Winter, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks

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Sometimes celebrated for their literary merit, baseball books seldom receive accolades for their artwork. Here, Winter's distinctive, painterly illustrations make the strongest statements in the book, conveying a powerful sense of the presence and personality of each man portrayed. This illustrated guide to the Negro Leagues features information about each player on the left-hand page; opposite are the portraits proportioned like a supersized baseball card. Players include Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, Satchel Paige, and Martin Dihigo. Though similar in concept to Lawrence Ritter's Leagues Apart (1995), this book covers only 18 players, allowing for fuller coverage. Each entry contains personal information as well as a player's career history and a few paragraphs describing his accomplishments, stats, and personal style. Evidently based on photographs, some posed and others capturing action on the field, Winter's highly individualized pictures make their statements through heightened contrast, broad areas of flat or textured color, and a sure sense of composition. Written in a colloquial style, this book conveys Winter's enthusiasm for his subject. A good link between Ritter's book for somewhat younger readers and longer nonfiction on the history of the Negro Leagues. Carolyn Phelan

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