1st Edition

When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball

By Brian Carroll Copyright 2007
292 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
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*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of... Read more

Foreword by Larry Lester

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Origins of Black Baseball

Chapter 2: "We Are The Ship. . . . All Else The Sea"

Chapter 3: From Fraternity to Fracture

Chapter 4: Transitions

Chapter 5: Interventionism

Chapter 6: Preparing the Way

Chapter 7: The Promised Land

Chapter 8: Staying Away in Crowds

Chapter 9: Sunset

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Brian Carroll is an associate professor of journalism at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, specializing in print media and digital media. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Carroll also is an adjunct professor at UNC.