Out of the shadows
Subtitle: African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson : the best of NINE
By: edited and with an introduction by Bill Kirwin.
Contributors: Kirwin, Bill, 1937-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: African American baseball players -- History.; Negro leagues -- History.; Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
Other titles: NINE.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the Cuban Giants: the origins of Black professional baseball / Jerry Malloy; title: When all heaven rejoiced: Branch Rickey and the origins of the breaking of the color line / Lee Lowenfish; title: The year "Cool Papa" Bell lost the batting title: Mr. Branch Rickey and Mr. Jackie Robinson's plea for affirmative action / Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner; title: Baseball and community: from Pittsburgh's hill to San Pedro's canefields / Rob Ruck; title: The strange career of Sol. White, Black baseball's first historian / Jerry Malloy; title: "Another chink in Jim Crow?": race and baseball on the northern plains, 1900-1935 / Scott Roper.; title: From Giants to Monarchs: the 1890 season of the Colored Monarchs of York, Pennsylvania / Jerry Jaye Wright; title: Racial pioneering on the mound: Don Newcombe's social and psychological ordeal / Guy Waterman; title: Mamie "Peanut" Johnson: the last female voice of the Negro Leagues / Jean Hastings Ardell; title: Effa Manley, a major force in Negro baseball in the 1930s and 1940s / Gai Ingham Berlage; title: Dick Allen, the Phillies, and racism / William C. Kashatus; title: Nine principles of successful affirmative action: Mr. Branch Rickey, Mr. Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball / Anthony R. Pratkanis & Marlene E. Turner.