The Makings Of Heroes: How The 1943 Black Phillies Broke Baseball's Color Line

Baseball maverick Bill Veeck always claimed that he tried to break baseball's color barrier in 1943 by buying the woebegone Philadelphia Phillies and stocking the team with players from the Negro Leagues. His plan was foiled in real life, but what if Veeck had succeeded in integrating baseball four years before Jackie Robinson arrived in Brooklyn?--Page 4 of cover.

• • Author: Alywn Featherston
• • Publisher: Outskirts Press
• • Publication Date: Sep 22, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 306 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1478742224
• • ISBN-13: 9781478742227