"This is the biography of Bud Fowler (nae John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn"--Provided by publi
Growing out of a lifelong love of baseball, Laing’s book recounts the story of baseball in Troy, New York, and the surprising preeminence of Troy in the development of the national pastime. “Haymaker,
