This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting

America and baseball are rediscovering the game played by African Americans before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. We now know a great deal abo

Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated s

The result of a study commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and funded by a grant from Major League Baseball(, this richly illustrated, comprehensi