{"product_id":"black-baseball-black-business-roberta-j-newman-9781617039546","title":"Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations--Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball's elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and\/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, \u003ci\u003eBlack Baseball, Black Business\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball's desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta J. Newman, Joel Nathan Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1617039543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617039546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014 pg. 118","brand":"Roberta J. Newman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001662521599,"sku":"9781617039546","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34f60370-3804-4c1e-afe1-8353a27a51c9.jpg?v=1751601752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-baseball-black-business-roberta-j-newman-9781617039546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}