Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Ruck, Rob
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Ruck, Rob

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 BaseballAfter...
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Author: Rob Ruck
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Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Ruck, Rob

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

$399.56
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Ruck, Rob

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

$399.56
Author: Rob Ruck
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Rob Ruck
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/21/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.08w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780807048078

About the Author
Rob Ruck teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Maggie Patterson, his coauthor for Rooney: A Sporting Life.
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