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Skead, Robert

Something to Prove: The Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe DiMaggio

32 pp. | Carolrhoda | April, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7613-6619-5 $16.95

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. In 1936, was twenty-one-year-old Joe DiMaggio ready for the Major Leagues? Should Satchel Paige, pitching great in the Negro Leagues, be playing in the Majors? A game was set up, and both players proved themselves worthy. Skead uses a little-known baseball episode to portray larger issues of race and justice in America; grainy brown-toned illustrations nicely evoke the dreamy reminiscences of baseball legend. Bib.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013