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Josh Gibson

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Books

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1988.

Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

Clark, Dick, and Larry Lester (eds.) The Negro Leagues Book. Cleveland: The Society for American Baseball Research, 1994.

Contemporary Black Biography. Volume 22. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.

Gardner, Robert and Dennis Shortelle. The Forgotten Players: The Story of Black Baseball in America. New York: Walker and Company, 1993.

Holway, John B. Black Diamonds. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1989.

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.

Logan, Rayford W. and Michael R. Winston. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: W.W. Norton.

Peterson, Robert. Only The Ball Was White. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

Robinson, Frazier "Slow," with Paul Bauer. Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Rogosin, Donn. Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues. New York: Atheneum, 1983.

Voices From the Great Black Baseball Leagues. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975.

Periodicals

Brashler, William. "Looking for Josh Gibson." Esquire. (February, 1978): 104.

Butters, Patrick. "Meet the unknown slugger." Insight on the News, (September 21, 1998): 43.

"Josh Gibson: Greatest Slugger of 'em All." Ebony, (May 1972): 45.

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