In an era when black baseball players had limited playing prospects in the United States, they found a more hospitable and level playing field in Canada. The entries in this dictionary contain biographical sketches, career highlights and statistics for hundreds of players, as well as information about their teams and leagues.

The late Barry Swanton was a retired baseball coach and manager from Winnipeg, Canada. He was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame for his promotion of baseball and baseball history in that province.
A former radio and television reporter, Jay-Dell Mah develops websites. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and previously served as the organization’s webmaster. His Attheplate.com has been on the web since the late 1990s.

Barry Swanton and Jay-Dell Mah
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 212
Bibliographic Info: 34 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2009
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4468-7
Imprint: McFarland

Foreword by Tom Hawthorn      1
Preface      5
Introduction      11

THE PLAYERS      15

Bibliography      193
Index      195