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Article: Shutout: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.(Red Sox Century: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball)(Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History)(Book Review)
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Howard Bryant. Shutout: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston. New York: Routledge, 2002. 288 pp. Paper, $14.00.
Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson. Red Sox Century: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 480 pp. Cloth, $40.00.
Jules Tygiel. Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 164 pp. Paper, $17.95.
RACE, BASEBALL, AND BOSTON
Since baseball began in the nineteenth century, race has played an important role in who played, where the game was played, who watched, and other key issues related to the growth of the sport. In the ...