Out of the shadows : African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson /
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Table of Contents:
- 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.