Lanctot, Neil, 1966

Negro league baseball : the rise and ruin of a Black institution / Neil Lanctot. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004. - xi, 496 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-478) and index.

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Separate but Equal?; 1 A Fragile Industry and a Struggling Community; 2 External Threats and Internal Dissension; 3 Growing Pains; 4 A New Beginning; 5 An Industry Transformed; 6 Life Inside a Changing Industry; Part II: Integration; 7 On the Outside Looking In; 8 Breakthrough and Setback; 9 Integration and the Changing Postwar World; 10 "The Golden Era Has Passed"; 11 The End of a Business; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

0812238079 (cloth : alk. paper)


Negro leagues--History.
Baseball--History.--United States
Béisbol--Historia--Estados Unidos

GV 875 / L252b 2004

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