The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History

by Rick Swaine

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and its integration strategy's effect on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.

Genres: Baseball

279 pages, Hardcover

First published January 9, 2008

Reviews

[Daryl Grigsby]

this book is great - a detailed history of each franchises' role in integrating baseball. details on how the phillies, yankees, cubs, senators and tigers lagged behind and eventually paid the price for their racism. check it out - tons of information.