Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Lawrence D. Hogan is a senior professor of history at Union County College in New Jersey. He is an expert on the history of black baseball and his touring exhibit on the subject has traveled nationwide.Jules Tygiel a history professor at San Francisco State University, is the author ofBaseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy,andPast Time: Baseball as History,aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year.The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 1939 and has become an American institution. Dedicated to chronicling and preserving baseball history and honoring the sport's foremost figures, it annually attracts more than 350,000 visitors to its home in Cooperstown, New York.