Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 7

Leslie A. Heaphy is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Stark Campus, in Canton, Ohio.

Table of Contents


Editor’s Note

Articles

Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium: The House That Ruth Built

and Satchel Furnished (with Fans) (Jim Overmyer)

Decline and Fall: The Negro Leagues After Integration (Robert Kuhn McGregor)

The Negro Leagues and Regional Historiography (Shawn Morris)

The Black Matty: William Clarence Matthews, “Harvard’s Famous

Colored Shortstop,” and the Color Line (Karl Lindholm)

Early African American Baseball in Chicago (Patrick Mallory)

A Field of Their Own: The Baltimore Black Sox and Maryland Park

(Bernard McKenna)

The Dodgers’ First Choice Wasn’t Jackie Robinson (Jim Kreuz)

Book Reviews

The Forgotten History of African American Baseball, by Lawrence D. Hogan (Reviewed by Michael Ginnetti)

Before Jackie: The Negro Leagues, Civil Rights and the American Dream, by Mary E. Corey and Mark Harnischfeger (Reviewed by Shawn Selby)

Bud Fowler: Baseball’s First Black Professional, by Jeffrey Michael Laing (Reviewed by David C. Ogden)

Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black

Baseball’s Greatest Visionary, by Larry Lester (Reviewed by Todd Peterson)

If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, by Donald Spivey (Reviewed by James E. Brunson III)

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles,

by James Overmyer (Reviewed by Mark Kress)

Thou Shalt Not Steal, by Bill “Ready” Cash and Al Hunter Jr. (Reviewed by A.J. Taylor)

For Further Research

The Fifth Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Art Competition

Further Reading for This Issue

Contributors