Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2008)

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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: 116
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2008
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Imprint: McFarland

Editor’s Note      3

Baseball, Race and History: In Praise of Jules Tygiel
ADRIAN BURGOS, JR.      4
A Tribute to Sam Lacy
LESLIE HEAPHY      6
“Our Man About Town”: James A. Smith and the Image of the Colored Sporting Fraternity of Cleveland, Ohio, 1883–1889
JAMES E. BRUNSON III      12
Biz Mackey: Catcher, Manager, Mentor Extraordinaire
BOB LUKE      41
Can You Read, Judge Landis?
LARRY LESTER      57
Effa Manley and the Politics of Passing
LISA DORIS ALEXANDER      83
What Ancestry.com Can Tell Us About Black Baseball
GERI STRECKER      95
The Negro Leagues in Print: A Bibliographic Essay, Part I
LESLIE HEAPHY      99

Book Reviews
Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, 25th Anniversary Edition by Jules Tygiel
REVIEWED BY RICHARD C. CREPEAU      110
Willie Wells: “El Diablo” of the Negro Leagues by Bob Luke
REVIEWED BY WAYNE STIVERS      111
Early U.S. Blackball Teams in Cuba: Box Scores, Rosters and Statistics from the Files of Cuba’s Foremost Baseball Researcher by Severo Nieto
REVIEWED BY GARY ASHWILL      112

Further Reading for This Issue      114
Contributors      116

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