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William Brashler

Born: 1947 in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Pen Name: Crabbe Evers is a joint pen name on books written with Reinder Van Til

Connection to Illinois: William Brashler was a reporter for Lerner Newspapers, Chicago, Illinois from 1971-73. He still lives in the Chicagoland area.

Biography: Brashler began his freelance writing career in 1972. His critically acclaimed book, ''The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings'', was adaped for a movie starring Richard Pryor and James Earl Jones.


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Mystery; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: wbrashler@aol.com
William Brashler on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=william+brashler


Selected Titles

Bleeding Dodger blue /
ISBN: 0553291777 OCLC: 24369202

Bantam, New York : ©1991.

Catch you later :
ISBN: 0060103248 OCLC: 4490408

Harper & Row, New York : ©1979.

  City dogs :
ISBN: 0451077415 OCLC: 1733319

Fear in Fenway :
ISBN: 0380718650 OCLC: 29944530

Avon Books, New York : [1994], ©1993.

Josh Gibson :
ISBN: 1566632951 OCLC: 42849715

I.R. Dee, Chicago, Ill. : 2000.

"During the first half of the twentieth century, Josh Gibson was a legendary figure among black baseball players, who were barred from playing in the major leagues. Perhaps baseball's greatest hitter ever, Gibson was known as "the black Babe Ruth." In this illuminating biography, William Brashler introduces an authentic American sports hero and recaptures the mood and style, the excitement and poignance of a world of black baseball that has vanished from the American scene. He traces Gibson's career from the sandlots and semi-pro teams of Pittsburgh, through his debut with the Homestead Grays in 1930, and on to his untimely death in 1947 at the age of thirty-five - the winter after Jackie Robinson broke through the minor leagues' color barrier."--Jacket.

Murder in Wrigley Field /
ISBN: 0553289152 OCLC: 23290899

Bantam Books, New York : ©1991.

Murderer's row /
ISBN: 0553290886 OCLC: 23967504

Bantam Books, New York : 1991.

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings /
ISBN: 0252062876 OCLC: 27264742

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 1993.

"This marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of a classic of baseball fiction. William Brashler's novel is the story of a black barnstorming ball club in 1939, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's unofficial color barrier. It was made into a popular film in 1976 that starred James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor. This edition includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by Peter Bjarkman that sets the novel in the context both of scholarly literature on the Negro Baseball Leagues and of sports fiction."--Jacket.

  The chosen prey /
ISBN: 0440112168 OCLC: 9973039

Dell Pub. Co., New York : 1983, ©1982.

  The don :
ISBN: 0345273265 OCLC: 18187064

Ballantine, New York : 1978.

The story of Negro league baseball /
ISBN: 0395697212 OCLC: 28963329

Ticknor & Fields, New York : 1994.

From 1890 to 1947, major league baseball was closed to blacks and Latinos, but that didn't keep these players out of the game. The best of them formed their own teams and then their own leagues. This is the story of those teams -- the Black Yankees, the Homestead Grays, the Kansas City Monarchs, and others -- and of the men who played on them. It is the story of baseball in another era, when uniforms were made of wool and lights were just beginning to make night games possible. But it is also the story of what it meant for players to be heroes in the ball park and then be denied entrance to hotels and restaurants because of the color of their skin. Includes historical photographs and interview with many of the players.

Tigers burning :
ISBN: 0380718669 OCLC: 34405186

Avon Books, New York : 1995, ©1994.

Traders /
ISBN: 1558174605 OCLC: 22869611

Windsor Pub. Corp., New York : 1990, ©1989.

 

 

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