Publisher description for A hard road to glory : baseball, the African-American athlete in baseball / Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. ; with the assistance of Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk, and Francis Harris.

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This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story.It is also a social history of the nation. Using the statistics of the past -- someknown and hidden, others unknown and only recently ferreted out -- Ashe puts the African-American baseball player back into the game. This volume, devoted completely to the African-American's participation in baseball, tells the stories and records of club, college and professional players. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.