Full Description
Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.
Contents
Editor's Note
Articles
Fortuitous Event or Planned Action? The Nashua Dodgers, the Second Front of Baseball Integration in 1946
Charlie Bevis
Twenty-First Century Mamie Johnson? Pitch and the Intersection of Race and Gender
Lisa Doris Alexander
Dating the Pebble Hill Plantation Baseball Film
Margaret A. Compton
Art Pennington: More Than "Superman"
William H. Johnson
Come and Measure Arms with Us: The Kansas City, Kansas, Giants, 1907-1917
Todd Peterson
Merchant Maroons
Paul R. Spyhalski
Beat the Best: A Kansas City Monarch Remembers
Bonnie Serrell, as told to Barry Mednick
Sheelor the Stealer: A Ballplayer's Story
Willie James Sheelor, as told to Sylvia Lawing
Book Reviews
Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League, by Douglas Branson
Reviewed by Keith Wood
Ted Strong, Jr.: The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star, by Sherman L. Jenkins
Reviewed by Adam J. Criblez
Daddy's Scrapbook: Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball League, a Daughter's Perspective, by Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton
Reviewed by Matthew Himel
Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876-1950, by Scott Simkus
Reviewed by Jonathan Mercantini
Review of Recent Scholarship
Further Reading for This Volume
Contributors
Index
