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Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905? 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own historyand then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
December 18th 2007
by Jump At The Sun
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James Sturm & Rich Tommaso’s graphic novel Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is the amazing story about one man’s influence on the course of civil rights in American history, through his athletic abilities and influence. Told through the eyes of an African-American man relating his personal witness to how Satchel defied the Jim Crow laws of their day, this is a history lesson, a morality tale, and a legendary athletic story all rolled into one. Sturm provides a complex portrait of Paige,...more
Our unnamed hero decides in 1929 to support his family by becoming a professional baseball player. It might have worked out too had he not played early on against the great Satchel Paige and busted his knee. Now he works as a sharecropper in the deep South and times are hard. His son is beaten by the white landowners for going to school rather than working their fields and there’s little to be done about it. Then, one day, Satchel Paige is advertised as coming to play the local white baseball te...more
I grabbed this book from the public library thinking it would be a high-interest read that I could share with my students. Since “42”, a movie about Jackie Robinson, is so popular now I thought this would be a great connection to something they were familiar with. The introduction set the stage for the story of an elite baseball player who’d face hardships along the way to the top. Yet, on page one you immediately find out that the story is told from the perspective of another young man leaving...more
Satchel Paige: Striking out Jim Crow is an excellent book about the struggle of African-Americans in the South and an excellent book about baseball. It tells the story of Emmett Wilson and his triumph and struggle through the Negro Leagues and back home in Tuckwilla, Alabama. The arc of the story revolves around the late, great Satchel Paige. Emmett's career in baseball ends abruptly and he and his family must suffer under the control of the Jennings family and their use of the Jim Crow laws. Lu...more
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The Beginning of this book is very similar to me in a way. I pay very much attention to the fact that the way that he pays attention to the ball is just like the way i do. You have to pay great attention to that ball before you hit it. The middle of the book mostly told about the Town That he used to live in. It also Told about the segregation in Tuckwilla, Alabama. They're Mayor Mr.Walker Jennings was very racist against the colored people in town. For example, In this Graphic Novel, They had a...more
I'm fascinated by Satchel Paige, and I had high hopes for this. It was good, but not as good as it could have been. The framing device is a fictional farmer who had a brief career in Negro League baseball before an injury in a game against Satchel ended his career. As much as Satchel features in this book, it barely feels like a book about Satchel. It's more about the unpleasantness of Jim Crow and segregation, as experienced by the fictional farmer. The story of the injustices faced by this far...more
SUMMARY: This book weaves together biography and fiction, with the real part concerning Satchel Paige, a famous African-American baseball player during the 1920s through the 1940s. The point of view is told from a man named Emmet, who comprises the fictional aspect of the story. Emmet was a promising minor-league player himself, who scored a run on a steal versus Paige in 1929. While sliding into home base, his knee sustained a serious injury, and that was his last baseball game. The book focuse...more
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is a work of historical fiction that focuses on the Jim Crows laws in the south and the sport of baseball. Told from the point of view of an unnamed black baseball player, it tells of the narrator's first encounter with the legendary Satchel Paige. From there, it shows how their lives differed from that moment, and the final baseball game where Satchel Paige brilliantly struck out three white players. There are many elements that make Satchel Paige, Striking...more
Two heroic public appearances by Negro Leagues legend Satchel Paige bookend the story, but the book's unnamed narrator -- a former Negro Leaguer who has become a sharecropper -- steals the show. Sturm and artist Rich Tommaso develop the narrator's emotions in a series of sharp domestic vignettes and let them frame and give meaning to Paige's electrifying feats.
Sturm's love for the game -- previously demonstrated in The Golem's Mighty Swing -- is again obvious here, but he doesn't nerd out or sho...more
Sturm's love for the game -- previously demonstrated in The Golem's Mighty Swing -- is again obvious here, but he doesn't nerd out or sho...more
Sturm, J. & Tommaso, R. (2007). Satchel Paige: Striking out jim crow. New York:
Hyperion Paperbacks.
Fiction. This story is about Satchel Paige, an outstanding pitcher who flourished in the Negro Leagues and the Major Leagues. The graphic novel is told in flashback during the Jim Crow days of the South. The fictional narrator, Emmet Wilson, is a baseball player benched after an injury, who eventually has to return to his life as a sharecropper to support his family. When Emmet decides he wi...more
Hyperion Paperbacks.
Fiction. This story is about Satchel Paige, an outstanding pitcher who flourished in the Negro Leagues and the Major Leagues. The graphic novel is told in flashback during the Jim Crow days of the South. The fictional narrator, Emmet Wilson, is a baseball player benched after an injury, who eventually has to return to his life as a sharecropper to support his family. When Emmet decides he wi...more
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is a wonderful graphic novel from The Center for Cartoon Studies. This historical comic is able to grab the reality of the Jim Crow South in a very realistic way. The art in this comic is able to highlight the reality of the time. It's not to cartoony to be seen as a fluff comic. Instead the tree tone color helps bring the comic alive.
I would recommend this beautiful comic to anyone who is interested in baseball history. The book show cases barnstorming base...more
I would recommend this beautiful comic to anyone who is interested in baseball history. The book show cases barnstorming base...more
Yet again James Sturm manages to give us a facinating story- which also conveys an amazing depth of a historical situation, a time and a place, that has meaning to us all.
In this book, he delves into the concept of black americans and thier love of baseball- even in the face of racism at a level most modern folks cannot fathom. When slavery was abolished, it didn't mean that suddenly all blacks were free to be equal citizens- we all know that. But what we might not know, and James Sturm shows us...more
In this book, he delves into the concept of black americans and thier love of baseball- even in the face of racism at a level most modern folks cannot fathom. When slavery was abolished, it didn't mean that suddenly all blacks were free to be equal citizens- we all know that. But what we might not know, and James Sturm shows us...more
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is a really interesting read, as it tells the story of Negro League superstar Satchel Paige, but from the perspective of a washed out baseball player, making it more of a story that contains Satchel Paige than really a story about him. The story still delivers all of the facts that you would want to know about one of the world's greatest all-time pitchers, but you are also given a glimpse into the southern US during the Jim Crow years, which partnered with th...more
This interweaves early 20th century segregation in the deep south and the life of Satchel Paige with a fictional story of a black sharecropper who had a brief career in the Negro Leagues. And really, it's more about this guy, his world, and the sorts of things he and his family deal with as a result of Jim Crow laws, segregation, and institutionalized racism than anything else. And it's powerful stuff, well told and excellently drawn, but I have to admit, I was hoping for a lot more Satchel Paig...more
A lauable piece of work; a graphic arts and non-fiction version of the career of Satchel Paige, I was fully engaged in this book and amazed that the illustrator captured the game of basball so well one frame at a time. You knew what was happening, even if like myself, you do not know the rules of the game. You can follow the game while relating to the dialogue of multiple characters. Gaining a sense of the prevalent emotions; the anger, the disrespect, the frusration felt within the ball players...more
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso
Satchel Paige used his baseball skill and his brilliant personality to make a statement about humanity and about racism that could never have been expressed in words. This quick graphic biography illustrates the tension during Jim Crow in the United States and those who acted out against it—without ever raising a hand beyond pitching a ball. The light, pencil-style drawings and sparse use of color add to the movement of the story...more
by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso
Satchel Paige used his baseball skill and his brilliant personality to make a statement about humanity and about racism that could never have been expressed in words. This quick graphic biography illustrates the tension during Jim Crow in the United States and those who acted out against it—without ever raising a hand beyond pitching a ball. The light, pencil-style drawings and sparse use of color add to the movement of the story...more
Actually LOVED that this book really only dealt with one game that Satchel Paige played. Each frame is illustrated and written with a play-by-play, making the reader feel like he/she is really watching the game. What a great way to use the graphic novel format! However, the fact that the narrator is not Satchel Paige is a little confusing at first, because there is no immediate indication that it is NOT. I feel like that just confuses the reader, and they may have to re-start the book (like I di...more
First of all, I think it's great this book exists. The Negro Leagues are something most kids know nothing about, and though most school kids can name Jackie Robinson, that's usually about it for baseball history. And let's face it, in a lot of ways, baseball history, especially that far back, is a huge part of American history.
That being said, I only found the book to be so-so. I think part of it was that it took me a while to adjust to the narrator. First of all, I assumed it was Satchel until...more
That being said, I only found the book to be so-so. I think part of it was that it took me a while to adjust to the narrator. First of all, I assumed it was Satchel until...more
Great stuff!
This graphic novel, relased by the Center for Cartoon Studies and written by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso, considers the persona of Satchel Paige from the perspective of an unnamed, black, ex-ballplayer living in the Jim-Crow South. The story mixes baseball with history, allowing for moments of competitive excitement while mostly relating the terribleness of the institutionalized subjugation that Jim Crow represented.
And, really, the execution is superb--the story flows excellently...more
This graphic novel, relased by the Center for Cartoon Studies and written by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso, considers the persona of Satchel Paige from the perspective of an unnamed, black, ex-ballplayer living in the Jim-Crow South. The story mixes baseball with history, allowing for moments of competitive excitement while mostly relating the terribleness of the institutionalized subjugation that Jim Crow represented.
And, really, the execution is superb--the story flows excellently...more
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, a graphic comic, tells the story of Leroy “Satchel” Paige through the eyes of a poor sharecropper that once played ball with Paige in the Negro National League. However, the book is not a true biography of Paige. The sharecropper mainly describes what life was like for him and his family when the United States was segregated and ‘separate but equal’ was the law of the land. Using baseball as the backdrop, author James Sturm and Rich Tommaso use Paige’s caree...more
What a great book & graphic novel! The story is told through the eyes of another black baseball player who played one game against the great Satchel Paige. It's not so much about Satchel Page's life but about the hope he brings to African Americans living in the Jim Crow era South. There is also a lot of detail about baseball - types of pitches, strategy, etc. - that is over my head but someone into baseball would really appreciate that. There's also an introduction and afterword which goes...more
As a librarian I'm a bit confused as to which collection this book should belong in. Fiction or non-fiction? Maybe biography? Children's or YA? I have no idea since this graphic novel is a brilliant little amalgam of all of the above.
It should be noted that this book is really more about Jim Crow than it is about Satchel Paige. Instead, the baseball great is really an effective tool for looking at the time period in this narrative. But seeing the story through someone else's eyes is probably mo...more
It should be noted that this book is really more about Jim Crow than it is about Satchel Paige. Instead, the baseball great is really an effective tool for looking at the time period in this narrative. But seeing the story through someone else's eyes is probably mo...more
I thought that this was just going to be a biographical graphic novel and I can't read enough about the fabulous Satchel Paige, so I was a little surprised when it turned out to be written from the point of view of another Negro League player. It starts with the narrator going to bat against Satchel Paige, then continues to be about the lives of both men. I ended up liking the format because I already know a lot about probably the best pitcher to ever take the mound, but got to learn what his su...more
Jun 17, 2012
hannah
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Yeahhhh....so this Center for Cartoon Studies, which ostensibly knows things about comics and cartoons and narrative and history, had this great opportunity to write about a black guy who played baseball and WASN'T named Jackie Robinson, and then they wrote this comic book, which is just a replay of an intense ball game and ends with platitudes about overcoming boundaries. There's also stuff about sharecropping that's good, but it's not a about the title page, so that doesn't make sense. Basical...more
Genre: Graphic novel, historical fiction
Rating: **** I liked this graphic novel because it used baseball to address racism and what was going on in the country from 1929-1944. While it gave information about Satchel Paige, it also went beyond baseball describing what life was like for African Americans in the south during that time period.
Plot Summary: The story is told from the perspective of a young African American, Emmet Wilson, who leaves home to play in the Negro League in 1929. He scores...more
Rating: **** I liked this graphic novel because it used baseball to address racism and what was going on in the country from 1929-1944. While it gave information about Satchel Paige, it also went beyond baseball describing what life was like for African Americans in the south during that time period.
Plot Summary: The story is told from the perspective of a young African American, Emmet Wilson, who leaves home to play in the Negro League in 1929. He scores...more
Nov 09, 2011
Theresa Reifon
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Middle School/High School Literature Teachers
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Format/Length: Graphic Novel; 89 pages
Award(s)/Distinction(s):
2008 Eisner Award Winner-Best Reality-Based Work
2008 Glyph Comics Award Winner-Best Character Best Writer
OYA (Voice of Youth Advocate- Nonfiction Honor List
39th NAACP Award Nominee for Best Literary Work - Youth/Teens
A 2007 CYBIL Awards Nominee for Best Graphic Novel
A 2008 New York Book Show Award Recipient
A Junior Library Guild selection
Theme(s): Baseball, racism, boundaries, discrimination, community, sense of home, family
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Award(s)/Distinction(s):
2008 Eisner Award Winner-Best Reality-Based Work
2008 Glyph Comics Award Winner-Best Character Best Writer
OYA (Voice of Youth Advocate- Nonfiction Honor List
39th NAACP Award Nominee for Best Literary Work - Youth/Teens
A 2007 CYBIL Awards Nominee for Best Graphic Novel
A 2008 New York Book Show Award Recipient
A Junior Library Guild selection
Theme(s): Baseball, racism, boundaries, discrimination, community, sense of home, family
Read-aloud...more
I thought it was interesting to learn about the pre-integration period of American baseball though the story of one of the leading African American ballplayers. The authors did a good job painting the picture of what life was like during that time, and how African Americans were treated differently than white ballplayers. The illustrations were generally good (this is a graphic novel), though I would have liked more color. It is a good book to learn some interesting historical and sports facts.
From the Center for Cartoon Studies comes another biographical book to follow "Houdini: The Handcuff King." This was a fascinating graphic novel look at the times of Satchel Paige, star pitcher of the Negro Leagues in the 1920s-30s. Interestingly, the story is told by a young African-American sharecropper whose first game saw him get a hit off one of Satchel's famous pitches, but a busted knee at home plate ended his career early.
I learned quite a bit about this time in history that I did not k...more
I learned quite a bit about this time in history that I did not k...more
This black and white graphic novel tells a compelling story of race relations in the South before the Civil Rights Movement. The famous baseball player Satchel Paige is the central piece that ties the stories together, but the narrator is a washed up baseball player trying to raise his family as a share cropper on a farm owned by two racist brothers. The excitement of playing baseball shines through, but the game is also looked at as the only place where Black players from the Negro Leagues coul...more
2009 Graphic Novel/Biography
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is a graphic novel book about baseball and all about the amazing affect Satchel Paige had on this great sport. Strum does a very good job of weaving other important topics of the era into this book such as sharecropping, prejudices’ in the South and how it affected these baseball players. Instead of a regular biography, Strum made this book intriguing to the readers and appealed to a new population by making it a graphic novel
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow is a graphic novel book about baseball and all about the amazing affect Satchel Paige had on this great sport. Strum does a very good job of weaving other important topics of the era into this book such as sharecropping, prejudices’ in the South and how it affected these baseball players. Instead of a regular biography, Strum made this book intriguing to the readers and appealed to a new population by making it a graphic novel
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James Sturm is the author of several award-winning graphic novels for children and adults, including James Sturm’s America, Market Day, The Golem’s Mighty Swing and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. He is also the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies and the National Association for Comics Art Educators. He created Adventures in Cartooning with collaborators Alexis Frederic-Frost and Andr...more
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