An extraordinary history of the negro leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black respons

As the companion volume to Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860–1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary, Lomax’s new book continues to chronicle the history of

Here is the first in-depth account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. In the late ninete