Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game - Paperback
by Rob Ruck
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807048078ISBN-10:807048070UPC:9780807048078Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Baseball, Discrimination, Civil RightsBook Topic:HistorySize:8.97 x 6.08 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCD1E1T75N
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball
After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those...
After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807048078ISBN-10:807048070UPC:9780807048078Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Baseball, Discrimination, Civil RightsBook Topic:HistorySize:8.97 x 6.08 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCD1E1T75N
Rob Ruck teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Maggie Patterson, his coauthor for Rooney: A Sporting Life.
Publisher: Beacon Press
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