| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. By Neil Lanctot. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xii, 496 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8122-3807-9.)

In the past thirty years, scholarly attention to the Negro Leagues has mushroomed. Studies of this separate sporting institution have included biographies of stars, case studies of leading teams and their communities, reference guides, and oral history compilations. Up to now, however, few works have attempted to detail the administrative history of the industry—a deficiency owing in part to the paucity of front-office records on Negro League teams and circuits. Nonetheless, Neil Lanctot, previously the author of Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910–1932 (1994), has bravely taken on the task of telling the story of the Negro Leagues as a business institution.

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