Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.

Chronicles the players, teams, stadiums, and important games that shaped African American babseball, including key players Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, and Jacki

Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is the perfect companion to the ultimate classic baseball reference work, Total Baseball. Whereas Total Baseball, now in

Provides a history of the Negro leagues and the role they played in integrating baseball.

When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league's policies of segregation that had bee