Robert Cottrell
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Ted Williams, My Father
This title is a welcome corrective to certain misconceptions about Williams, while above all else underscoring his uniqueness and complexity.
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Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950
An interesting but confounding work—with unifying threads somewhat lacking—that is perhaps strongest in its analysis of black baseball.
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Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice
A significant study that provides both a micro- and macroexplication of baseball's impact on the Dominican Republic and the island nation's impact on the sport.
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The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture, and Resistance in Black Baseball
This book adds to the growing literature on black baseball, although a somewhat greater grounding in primary materials would have been welcomed.
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This work delivers an important rendering of a too-little-remembered challenge to American society's segregated practices. Strongly recommended.
Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
This work delivers an important rendering of a too-little-remembered challenge to American society's segregated practices. Strongly recommended.
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This terrific rendering is highly recommended both to baseball fans and to students of civil rights history and African American studies.
Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race
This terrific rendering is highly recommended both to baseball fans and to students of civil rights history and African American studies.
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The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Not for casual baseball fans, this is a decidedly strong contribution to the literature on organized baseball and the law.
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Who's on Worst?: The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
A thoroughly enjoyable light read for all baseball fans.
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