When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime

by Ryan A. Swanson

Book Overview

The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did the game become so firmly segregated that it required a trailblazer like Robinson? The answer, Ryan A. Swanson suggests, has everything to do with the politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496219538
• ISBN13: 9781496219534
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"