Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution

From: Business History Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Alexander, Charles C | Copyright information

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. By Neil Lanctot. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-812-23807-9.

Anyone inside or outside academic life who regards the study of baseball's history as lightweight and peripheral to the major concerns of scholarship (and there still are such people) ought to be disabused after reading Neil Lanctot's book. Since the publication of Robe...

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