The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

"The story of Bingo Long and his Traveling All-Stars during the summer of 1939 is fast-paced, exciting, sometimes funny—and at all times an authentic recreation of that special world of the black baseball leagues that were so much a part of the American sports scene before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Bingo, his fastball pitching ace Leon Carter, his third baseman Louis Keystone, rookie outfielder Joe Calloway. and the rest of the team toured the Midwest in Bingo's Auburn and Louis's Lincoln from Pittsburg to Kansas City. playing well-known teams in small farming towns. They played two—sometimes three—games a day, and they usually won. They entertained the spectators with special stunts on the field; they entertained themselves at night, sometimes with dramatic and unexpected results; and they coped with racial prejudice almost everywhere."--Dust jacket.