Beschreibung:
Probes the other side of baseball history--episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, how it perpetuates itself, and how it affects the game.
Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi 1 A Game of Their Own 1 2 The Sovereign Nation of Baseball 28 3 Rickey, Race, and "All Deliberate Speed" 67 4 Tearing Down the Walls 108 5 "Wait 'Til Next Year" and the Denial of History 146 6 The Storytellers 180 Notes 221 Bibliography 261 Index 271