| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 496. $34.95.

Although certainly not the first work of note on the subject of the Negro Leagues, Neil Lanctot's book is an admirable account of black baseball from the 1930s to its ultimate demise two decades later. Whereas previous works, including a plethora of biographies of Negro League legends, have focused primarily on historical developments related to action on the diamond, Lanctot provides a remarkable glimpse into the economic complexities of the Negro Leagues. By drawing together a variety of sources, including newspaper accounts, interviews, and private collections, Lanctot has painstakingly recreated the economic landscape of black baseball over a period of time when it rose from obscurity, reached its zenith, and then crumbled in the wake of integration.

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