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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

Nelson, Kadir
Nelson, Kadir

Hardcover

General Juvenile NonfictionSports & Recreation

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 0786808322
ISBN13: 9780786808328
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: Jan 8 2008
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 11.30 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
Awards: Beehive Awards, Bluebonnet Awards, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Coretta Scott King Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Cybils, Orbis Pictus Award, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
In this New York Times bestselling classic, Caldecott Medal-winning artist Kadir Nelson tells the incredible story of baseball's unsung heroes -- perfect for celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Negro Leagues!

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Robert F. Siebert Award as well as a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor

Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners, of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship, of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay to do one thing they loved more than anything else in the world: play ball.

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