Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2009)

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

Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy
Format: softcover (7 x 9)
Pages: 124
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2009
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Imprint: McFarland

Editor’s Note      3

Daniel Gardner Burley: Musician, Journalist and Activist
LESLIE HEAPHY      4
Bud Fowler’s Lost Years
PETER MORRIS      10
Remembering the Bearcats: Black Baseball in France at the End of World War I
PELLOM MCDANIELS III      24
The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field: Biography of a Ballpark
GERI STRECKER      37
The Black Press and Negro League Baseball in 1940s Cleveland
RYAN RYZNER      68
To Pittsburgh from Chicago: A Changing of the Guard in Black Baseball and the Black Press in the 1930s
BRIAN CARROLL      86

Book Reviews
Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games of the Negro Leagues’ Most Important City, Edited by Leslie Heaphy
REVIEWED BY BRIAN CARROLL      106
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye
REVIEWED BY ANTONGIULIO SORGINI      107
South of the Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration, by John Virtue
REVIEWED BY JASON F. NORRIS      108
The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball, by Bob Luke
REVIEWED BY MICHELLE BUDENZ      109

Historical Article      111
Further Reading for This Issue      112
Contributors      118

• “Some great articles…outstanding scholarship”—The Courier
• “fascinating…the articles here are research quality, documented with end notes and sometimes additional reading lists. The book reviews are signed, and the editorial board is impressive…should appeal to a large audience”—Serials Solutions