Author	Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950-
Title	Out of left field [electronic resource] : Jews and Black baseball / Rebecca T. Alpert
Imprint	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399004.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (ix, 236 p.) : ill., ports

An eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories the relationship between Jews & Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs political radicals & a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues

1. Baseball -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
2. Racism in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
3. African Americans -- Relations with Jews -- History -- 20th century