附註:Includes bibliographical references.
The birth of the Cuban Giants: the origins of black professional baseball / by Jerry Malloy -- When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line / by Lee Lowenfish -- 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 and Marlene E. Turner -- Baseball and community: from Pittsburgh's hill to San Pedro's canefields / by Rob Ruck -- The strange career of Sol White, black baseball's first historian / by Jerry Malloy -- "Another chink in Jim Crow?" race and baseball on the northern plains, 1900-1935 / by Scott Roper -- From Giants to Monarchs: the 1890 season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania / by Jerry Jaye Wright -- Racial pioneering on the mound: Don Newcombe's social and psychological ordeal / by Guy Waterman -- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson: the last female voice of the Negro Leagues / by Jean Hastings Ardell -- Effa Manley, a major force in Negro baseball in the 1930s and 1940s / by Gai Ingham Berlage -- Dick Allen, the Phillies, and racism / by William C. Kashatus -- Nine principles of successful affirmative action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / by Anthony R. Pratkanis and Marlene E. Turner.
摘要:For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's national pastime, NINE has explored baseball from the earliest matches and little-known players of the 1800s to the modern billion-dollar industry and its superstars of today. Here, gathered for the first time, are the best essays from NINE that center on the complex and multifaceted topic of African Americans in baseball.