Full Description
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. This diverse collection offers an enlightening look at African American baseball in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Negro Leagues, and the turmoil surrounding the integration of baseball by Jackie Robinson and others. Influential figures such as the Negro League team owner Effa Manley, the writer Sol White, and the player Don Newcombe are explored, along with Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. The book features an introduction by NINE founder and editor Bill Kirwin. Represented as well are other respected baseball historians, including the late Jerry Malloy, considered by many to be the leading scholar on nineteenth-century black baseball. Out of the Shadows addresses such themes as the importance of baseball to the African American community, the personal hardships faced by early integrators Robinson and Newcombe, the influence of female owners on the Negro Leagues, and the early days of barnstorming before integration, thereby providing a balanced and engaging overview of African American baseball history.
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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
