Black Ball 10

Leslie A. Heaphy is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Stark Campus, in Canton, Ohio.

• Table of ContentsEditor’s NoteArticlesFortuitous Event or Planned Action? The Nashua Dodgers, the Second Front of Baseball Integration in 1946Charlie BevisTwenty-First Century Mamie Johnson? Pitch and the Intersection of Race and GenderLisa Doris AlexanderDating the Pebble Hill Plantation Baseball FilmMargaret A. ComptonArt Pennington: More Than “Superman”William H. JohnsonCome and Measure Arms with Us: The Kansas City, Kansas, Giants, 1907–1917Todd PetersonMerchant MaroonsPaul R. SpyhalskiBeat the Best: A Kansas City Monarch RemembersBonnie Serrell, as told to Barry MednickSheelor the Stealer: A Ballplayer’s StoryWillie James Sheelor, as told to Sylvia LawingBook ReviewsGreatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League, by Douglas BransonReviewed by Keith WoodTed Strong, Jr.: The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star, by Sherman L. JenkinsReviewed by Adam J. CriblezDaddy’s Scrapbook: Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball League, a Daughter’s Perspective, by Harriet Kimbro-HamiltonReviewed by Matthew HimelOutsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950, by Scott SimkusReviewed by Jonathan MercantiniReview of Recent ScholarshipFurther Reading for This VolumeContributorsIndex