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""A delightful read. This is a tale worth telling.""--Washington Post ""Dunkel tells one of the great untold stories about baseball history, one that almost sounds too good to be true.""--Chicago Tribune ""Dunkel's enthralling narrative of Bismarck's talented collection of white and black players falls into the 'must-read' category.""--Cleveland Plain Dealer ""A terrific book... It is funny, it is sad, it is spellbinding, required reading for anyone who loves baseball, who loves a vivid story well-told... Color Blind is crammed with characters ... laced with joy, rocked by sadness, framed by the civil rights struggle... If you want to understand America, you have to understand baseball.""--Philadelphia Daily News ""Give an exceptional storyteller an exceptional story to tell, and you just might wind up with a book as good as Tom Dunkel's Color Blind.""--Gene Weingarten, Washington Post columnist and feature writer, two-time winner of The Pulitzer Prize ""Dunkel writes with a passion and flair that matches the gritty, hardscrabble North Dakota landscape and culture of the Great Depression. His meticulous research and clever writing blows the dust off a forgotten--but important--chapter in baseball history. A fascinating addition to baseball's library.""--Tampa Tribune ""A little-known but charming narrative that affirms baseball as a cornucopia of good stories.""--Daily Beast ""Color Blind is an amazing story of black and white that should be read all over.""--John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden ""[A] wonderful book. Color Blind captures Satch and his Negro League pals at their absolute rollicking best. What a fabulous addition to the literature of our national pastime!""--Timothy M. Gay, author of Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson ""Very entertaining... Baseball fans will cherish this book.""--Booklist (starred review) ""Dunkel delves into the history of players, towns, and baseball itself in constructing this portrait of a harmonious team rising above a segregated society... a story that transcends championships, and an inspirational reflection on an otherwise dismal human rights history.""--Publishers Weekly ""Tom Dunkel's wonderfully reported book Color Blind casts a spotlight on a long overlooked but fascinating corner of baseball history.""--San Antonio Express-News ""A rich history.""--Bismarck Tribune ""Dunkel well describes the loosey-goosey, not quite minor-league level of America's regional teams in the 1920s and '30s, with ballplayers bouncing across the map to join one team and then another... A happy story.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Painstakingly researched. ... [here] is Paige in all his maddening glory ... against a sepia backdrop of drought, dust storms, and swarms of grasshoppers at the depth of the Depression.""--Washington Independent Review of Books

A delightful read. This is a tale worth telling. -- Washington Post Dunkel tells one of the great untold stories about baseball history, one that almost sounds too good to be true. -- Chicago Tribune Dunkel's enthralling narrative of Bismarck's talented collection of white and black players falls into the 'must-read' category. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer A terrific book. . . . It is funny, it is sad, it is spellbinding, required reading for anyone who loves baseball, who loves a vivid story well-told. . . . Color Blind is crammed with characters . . . laced with joy, rocked by sadness, framed by the civil rights struggle. . . . If you want to understand America, you have to understand baseball. -- Philadelphia Daily News Give an exceptional storyteller an exceptional story to tell, and you just might wind up with a book as good as Tom Dunkel's Color Blind. --Gene Weingarten, Washington Post columnist and feature writer, two-time winner of The Pulitzer Prize Dunkel writes with a passion and flair that matches the gritty, hardscrabble North Dakota landscape and culture of the Great Depression. His meticulous research and clever writing blows the dust off a forgotten--but important--chapter in baseball history. A fascinating addition to baseball's library. -- Tampa Tribune A little-known but charming narrative that affirms baseball as a cornucopia of good stories. --Daily Beast Color Blind is an amazing story of black and white that should be read all over. --John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden [A] wonderful book. Color Blind captures Satch and his Negro League pals at their absolute rollicking best. What a fabulous addition to the literature of our national pastime! --Timothy M. Gay, author of Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson Very entertaining. . . . Baseball

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Tom Dunkel is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written for The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and others.

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