1. Josh Gibson refers to players and others involved in the Negro leagues besides Gibson. Choose one of them and research his or her life and then write a short biography of him or her. You may wish to imitate Holway's style, which emphasizes quotations from first handobservers.

2. In what other books besides Josh Gibson and in what journalistic articles does Holway write about Gibson? How do his views grow and change over the years as he discusses Josh Gibson? Where does Holway come closest to capturing the real man behind the famous image?

3. African-American ball players had trouble finding service stations that would let them use their bathrooms. How widespread was this problem in those days? Was it exclusively a Southern problem, or were African Americans refused service because of their race in other regions of the United States?

4. Gibson...