A Hard Road to Glory: Baseball, the African-American Athlete in Baseball
This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball
story. It is also a social history of the nation. Using the
statistics of the past — someknown and hidden, others unknown
and only recently ferreted out — Ashe puts the
African-American baseball player back into the game. This
volume, devoted completely to the African-American's
participation in baseball, tells the stories and records of
club, college and professional players, including Jackie Robinson's
reintegration of professional sports, and Curt
Flood's struggle to establish a free agency. By Arthur
Ashe, Jr.
