We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Beautiful oil paintings, based on photographs from the Negro League Baseball Museum grace at least every other page of this collection of stories about “lost heroes” of our national game. Following a forward by Hank Aaron, cleverly labeled “Innings,” tell the story from Negro League’s beginnings in the 1920s through “Extra Innings,” the end of the Negro Leagues from 1946 until the League’s last day in 1960. Included in the back: lists of Negro Leaguers who made it to the Major Leagues and Negro Leaguers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, a bibliography and filmography, numerous endnotes, and a 3-page index.