Table of Contents

Introduction1. "The Birth of the Cuban Giants: The Origins of Black Professional Baseball" by Jerry Malloy2. "When All Heavens Rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the Origins of the Breaking of the Color Line" by Lee Lowenfish3. "The Year Cool Papa Bell Lost the Batting Title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's Plea for Affirmative Action" by Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner4. "Baseball and Community: From Pittsburgh Hill to San Pedro's Canefields" by Rob Ruck5. "The Strange Career of Sol White, Black Baseball's First Historian" by Jerry Malloy6. "Another Chink in Jim Crow? Race and Baseball on the Northern Plains, 1900-1935" by Scott Roper7. "From Giants to Monarchs: The 1890 Season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania" by Jerry Jaye Wright8. "Racial Pioneering on the Mound: Newcombe's Social and Psychological Ordeal" by Guy Waterman9. "Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson: The Last Female Voice of the Negro Leagues" by Jean Hastings Ardell10. "Effa Manley, A Major Force in Negro Baseball in the 1930's and 1940's" by Gai Ingham Berlage11. "Dick Allen, the Phillies and Racism" by William C. Kashatus12. "Nine Principles of Successful Affirmative Action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the Integration of Baseball" by Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner

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An anthology of African American experiences in professional baseball from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s.

About the Author

Bill Kirwin is a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Calgary–Edmonton. He is the editor of the journal NINE, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Reviews

"This collection of articles provides an excellent history of African American baseball from its origins to Jackie Robinson. . . . I would highly recommend this book just for learning more about our national pastime, even if it reminds us of a stained past."—Sanjeev A. Rao, Jr., Sports Literature Association