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For practically 15 years NINE: A Journal of Baseball Background and Culture is a leading scholarly journal of football history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's countrywide pastime, NINE has explored football from the earliest complements and little-known players of the 1800s to the modern billion-dollar industry and its own superstars of today. Here, accumulated for the first time, are the best essays from NINE that center on the complex and multifaceted subject of African People in the usa in football. This diverse collection offers an enlightening check out African American football in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Negro Leagues, and the turmoil surrounding the integration of football by Jackie Robinson as well as others. Influential figures including the Negro League team owner Effa Manley, the article writer Sol White, and the player Don Newcombe are explored, along with Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. The publication features an intro by NINE creator and editor Charge Kirwin. Displayed as well are other well known baseball historians, including the late Jerry Malloy, considered by many to be the leading scholar on 19th-century dark football. Out of the Shadows addresses such topics as the value of football to the African American community, the non-public hardships experienced by early integrators Robinson and Newcombe, the influence of feminine owners on the Negro Leagues, and the first times of barnstorming before integration, thus providing a well-balanced and engaging overview of African American football history.
