Black Barons of Birmingham

Larry Powell is a professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He is the author or coauthor of several books and articles.

“Larry Powell has broken new ground...there is real strength in the wealth of information on individual players, much of it drawn from personal interviews”—Midwest Book Review; “Larry Powell provides not only a history of this Southern staple of Negro League Baseball, but first hand narratives from the players who lived to tell it. You will discover names of the greats that you never saw play, and by the end of the book you will wish you had been there to see them. These are the stories of the Birmingham Black Barons, and they are the ones that our future generations need to hear”—Baseball Happenings.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Clayton Sherrod      Preface      PART I. THE BLACK BARONS BEFORE INTEGRATIONIntroduction      1. The Black Barons in the 1920s      2. The Black Barons in the 1930s      3. The Black Barons in the 1940s      PART II. THE BLACK BARONS AFTER INTEGRATIONIntroduction      4. Post–Robinson Era Black Barons      5. Players and Tryout Camps      6. Black Barons in the White Minor Leagues      7. Black Barons in the Major Leagues      Afterword      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index