The History of African Americans in Baseball Bibiliography

By Bill Jordan
Updated: December 29, 2008

Anderson, B. (2001). Celebrating Jackie Robinson? Major League Baseball Sees the Limitations of Promotions. Journal of Promotion Management, 7, 215-224.

Carroll, B. (2006). Early Twentieth-Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League baseball in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender. Journalism History, 32, 34-42.

Carroll, B. (2006). From Fraternity to Fracture: Black Press Coverage of Involvement in Negro League Baseball in the 1920s. American Journal of Historians Association, 23, 69-95.

Dorinson, J., & Warmund, J. (1998). Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Everbach, T. (2005). Breaking Baseball Barriers: The 1953-1954 Negro League and Expansion of Women’s Public Roles. American Journalism, 22, 13-33.

Hanssen, A. (1998). The Cost of Discrimination: A Study of Major League Baseball. Southern Economic Journal, 64, 603-627.

Heaphy, L.A. (2003). The Negro Leagues 1869-1960. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.

Huddle, F. P. (1943). Baseball Jargon. American Speech, 18, 103-111.

Kaszuba, D. (2007). Review of When to Stop Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball. American Journalism, 24, 199-201.

Long, M. G. (2007). The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson: First Class Citizenship. New York, New York: Henry Hold and Company.

Lowenfish, L. (2007). Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Marshall, W. (1999). Baseball’s Pivotal Era 1945-1951. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky.

Nalbantian, H.R. & Schotter, A. (1995). Matching and Efficiency in the Baseball Free-Agent System: An Experimental Examination. Journal of Labor Economics, 13, 1-31.

O’Toole, A. (2003). The Best Man Plays: Major League baseball and the Black Athlete 1901-2002. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.

Rennert, R. S. (1993). Baseball Great Henry Aaron. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers.

Simon, S. (2002). Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball. Danvers, Massachusetts: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Spivey, D. (1983). The Black Athlete in Big-Time Intercollegiate Sports, 1941-1968. Phylon, 44, 116-125.

Vrooman, J. (1997). A Unified Theory of Capital and Labor Markets in Major League Baseball. Southern Economic Journal, 63, 594-619.

Winfield, D. (2007). Dropping the Ball: Baseball’s Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them. New York, New York: Scribner.

Wittenmyer, G. (2004, March 22). Decrease in African Americans in baseball has officials puzzled, concerned. Saint Paul Pioneer Press, pp. 1-5.