Sturm James - Satchel Paige Striking Out Jim Crow - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy " Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger - than - life pitcher but when it comes to Paige fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history and then re - writing it. A tall lanky fireballer he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South. In stark prose and powerful graphics author and artist share the story of a sports hero role model consummate showman and era - defining American.
Title: Satchel Paige Striking Out Jim Crow
Author(s): Sturm James
Publisher: Disney Book Publishing Inc.
Barcode: 9781368042895
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 4/23/2019
Category: Comic Strip Fiction / Graphic Novels (Children's / Teenage)