Booklist, in its review of
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, wrote "This book goes far beyond the few familiar photographs and names most readers associate with the Negro Baseball Leagues, and it makes the trip in style."
Black Diamond has also been reviewed by
The Horn Book Magazine, and
Book Report. The
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on
Negro league baseball vocabulary.
Black Diamonds is a 1994 CCBC Choice, a 1994
NCTE Kaleidoscope book, and received a 1997
Coretta Scott King Award author honor. ==References==