☰

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Weight Training

Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game

Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game

From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball

After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Award-winning historian Rob Ruck not only explains the catalyst for this sea change; he also breaks down the consequences that cut across society. Integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind.

By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.
Country USA
Brand Beacon Press
Manufacturer Beacon Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780807048078
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-02-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807048078

You might also like...

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Past Time: Baseball As History

Past Time: Baseball As History

Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era (Sport and Society)

Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era (Sport and Society)

Baseball: A History of America's Game (Illinois History of Sports)

Baseball: A History of America's Game (Illinois History of Sports)

Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice

Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice

The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War

Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War