first edition Hardcover
1977 · (Los Angeles)
by TROUPPE, Quincy
(Los Angeles): S and S Enterprises, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Octavo. 285pp. Photographs. Slight binder's flaw has resulted in nominal wrinkles on a few pages else near fine in good only dust jacket with considerable chipping. An exceptionally uncommon self-published book, an anecdotal history and personal memoir about African-American baseball by a player and manager in the Negro Leagues, who later signed with the Cleveland Indians as a catcher at the age of 38, and thereafter was a major league scout for many years. The author's son, Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (his father had added a second "p" during his career in the Mexican (truncated)
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