* Announcement: Author of We Are The Ship in La Jolla

From the La Jolla Light Web site:

Negro League baseball author at D.G. Wills May 24

Acclaimed Author and Illustrator Kadir Nelson will discuss his new book We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball on Saturday May 24 at 7 p.m., at D.G.Wills Books.

Nelson will be introduced by baseball historian Bill Swank. There will also be a special appearance by Negro League pitcher Walter McCoy.

Using an “everyman” player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

In 1999, Nelson began to collaborate with several notable authors on a series of picture books. Presently, almost twenty illustrated books are in print, including Debbie Allen’s “Dancing in the Wings”, Ntozake Shange’s “Coretta Scott King”, Award-winning book, “Ellington Was Not a Street”, Deloris and Roslyn Jordan’s best-seller “Salt in his Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream” and many others.

Many of his paintings are found in the collections of notable institutions and museums, including the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the U.S. House of Representatives; as well as in the collections of notable individuals, including Steven Spielberg, Denzel Washington, Will and Jada Smith, Sharon Stone, Spike and Tonya Lee and Queen Latifah.

Nelson also exhibits his work in galleries and museums throughout the country.

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