About the Author

Brent Kelley, a retired equine veterinarian from Lexington, Kentucky, is the author of numerous McFarland baseball books.

Reviews

“wonderful reading for baseball fans”—Booklist; “voluminous...top-notch work”—Public Library Quarterly; “eyewitness accounts from the men who endured both the good and the bad of black ball”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “stories of discrimination, of competition and of playing baseball in a segregated society”—Baseball America; “visits with Negro Leaguers from the 1920s–30s, the 1940s and the 1950s”—The SABR Bulletin.