Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America and the most triumphant no-hitters

and the most triumphant no-hitters

chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle

and the miraculously hopeful

There is a billion-dollar education inside this book

And then there's Dean--a profiler like Cassie but with a much darker gift

Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America and the most triumphant no-hittersAn authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, up to today's game by award winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame. No sport has been more associated with America's sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound with America's