first edition Hardcover
1977 · (Los Angeles)
by TROUPPE, Quincy
(Los Angeles): S and S Enterprises, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 285pp. Photographs. Owner name marked over (but still easily readable) on the front fly, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a little soiling and sunning to the red letters on the spine. Inscribed by Trouppe on page 13, by his picture: "To Donald Mucher with my best wishes. Quincy Trouppe." 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 (truncated)