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"In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the black baseball diamond through a catcher's mask. In 1939, at the age of 29 - after playing professional baseball for twelve years - Frazier Robinson caught for the legendary Satchel Paige in barnstorming games from New Orleans to Walla Walla."--BOOK JACKET. "Robinson played several more seasons in the Negro Leagues before finishing his career in Canada. While his career was a solid one, it was less spectacular than that of his friend and…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 1999Syracuse University Press · 230 pages · 9780815605638
Baseball playersNegro leaguesAfrican American baseball playersBiographyHistoryRace relations