A Hard Road to Glory

This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency.

Publisher's Statement

ix

Views of Sport

xiii

Foreword

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

3

(14)

Boxing

17

(26)

Horse Racing

43

(11)

Cycling

54

(4)

Track and Field

58

(10)

Baseball

68

(21)

Football

89

(15)

Basketball

104

(7)

Reference Section

111

(66)

Sources

177

(10)

Index

187

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