01141cam a2200253 a 4500001000500000005001700005020001800022040002300040050001300063082000800076100002700084245008100111260003400192300005600226505000800282520042300290521002000713521002000733650002300753650002300776650002700799650003200826700002900858243120250512154008.0  a9780545522700  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng00aPZ7.J62900a4261 aJohnson, Angelad1961-10aJust like Josh Gibson /cwritten by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Beth Peck  aNew York :bScholastic,c2004  a30 unnumbered pages :bColor illustrations ;c28 cm  aS 
  a Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would have faced tremendous challenges. These challenges are not unlike those met by the legendary Josh Gibson, arguably the best Negro-League player to never make it into the majors. In a poignant  a790 
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