Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933

Great Lakes Books Series

by Richard Bak

Book by Bak, Richard

Genres: Sports, Baseball

300 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly about the history of the Negro Leagues and race in Detroit in the early parts of the 20th Century. Turkey Stearnes is about 10% of this book. Written in 1994, it has a lot of stats which weren’t readily accessible yet.

Note: Found this at the school (Colorado State University) where I work. For whatever reason, they have a bunch of older baseball books, many regarding the Negro Leagues