Describes the experiences and contributions of American Indians as they courageously tried to make their place in baseball, the America's national game, in the first half of the 20th century. This title provides biographical profiles of Native players. It shows how American Indians battled discrimination and racism to integrate American baseball.
Jeffrey Powers-Beck is a professor of English and assistant dean of Graduate Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue. Joseph B. Oxendine is the author of American Indian Sports Heritage (Nebraska 1995).
