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"The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--

"Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game. Never before has the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum published a complete registry of inductees with plaques, photographs, and extended biographies. In this unique, 75th anniversary edition, read the stories of every player inducted into the Hall, organized by...

A biography of the major league baseball slugger who finished the 1973 season within a few home runs of breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record.

Looks at the life and career of the baseball superstar, from his youth in Mobile, Alabama to his life after baseball.

Profiles the man who replaced Babe Ruth as "America's Home Run King" and also set records for RBIs and total bases run, despite the pressures of being one of the few black major league players in the 1950s.

A brief biography emphasizing the careers of the two baseball players famous for their record number of home runs.

Profiles some heroes of baseball and what they did to achieve their legendary status.