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Article: The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball
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- The Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball Bob Luke. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Nearly a half a century ago historians began to investigate the national pastime and found an untapped area, rich in the fabric of American social history. A decade later Robert Peterson produced his seminal work in African American baseball, Only the Ball Was White, which opened up an expanding study of the subject of race and the sport. Today, more than one hundred books on this theme exist-the latest of which is Bob Luke's The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball. Based on articles from the black press, ...