Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Equality Baseball Is the Music of Mathematics Larry Lester The Case for the Negro Leagues Todd Peterson Measuring Equality: A Statistical Comparison of the Negro Leagues to the Major Leagues Based on the 1925 Season Richard J. Puerzer Gray Area: Homestead vs. the Minor Leagues Scott Simkus The Color of Money: Salaries and Performance in Pre-and Post-Integration Baseball Michael Haupert Winning in the Crucible of White-Hot Competition Jeffery S. Williams The Top Ten Reasons Why the Negro Leagues Should Be Declared a Major League Ted Knorr Part Two. Equity Hotel Resorts and the Emergence of the Black Baseball Professional: Riverine and Maritime Communities, 1867-1890 James E. Brunson III Leading Off: The Cuban Giants Tony Kissel Rube Foster: Negro League Giant Robert C. Cottrell John Donaldson: Restoring the Legacy of Segregated Baseball's Greatest Pitcher Pete Gorton The Measure of Failure: Atlanta Baseball and Community Development in the 1930s and 1970s Thomas Aiello Changing the Way They Do Business: Jackie Robinson, Integration and the Origins of Organizational Culture in Organized Baseball Michael E. Lomax Separate but Unequal Philip J. Lowry Monuments: The Shaping of Negro Leagues Public Memory Josh Howard Appendix I: NLB vs. MLB, 1885-1924 Appendix II: NLB vs. MLB All-Stars, 1902-1948 Appendix III: NLB vs. MLB Batting, Pitching and Fielding Statistics, 1886-1948 Appendix IV: Batting and Pitching Statistics of Negro Leaguers in MLB and Triple A Appendix V: Black Minor League Batting and Pitching Leaders, 1946-1975 Appendix VI: MLB/NLB Throwback Games, 1994-2019 Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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