Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

by Peter Dreier and Robert Elias

Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal
Foreword INDIES Finalist in History

In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges--racism, sexism and homophobia--that shaped society and worked their way into baseball's culture, economics, and politics.

Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America's pastime, the nation's battles over race, gender, and sexuality have been reflected on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496217772
• ISBN13: 9781496217776
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"