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Kelley, Brent. "I Will Never Forget": Interviews with 39 Former Negro League Players.(Book Review)

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Oct. 2003. 199p. illus. index. McFarland, $45 (0-7864-1481-2). 796.357.

Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line when he stepped on the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but he inadvertently broke the back of the Negro baseball leagues, too, by turning black fans' attention to the Major Leagues. But the Negro leagues were a significant chapter in American sporting history, and Kelley has captured the experience of the players in his three volumes of oral history. (This one follows Voices from the Negro Leagues, 1998, and The Negro Leagues Revisited, 2000.) One ...

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