Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America

by National Baseball Hall Of Fame and Gerald Early

An authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, up to today's game--by award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

No sport has been more associated with America's sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984863223
• ISBN13: 9781984863225
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.