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How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

Before Jackie Robinson: Baseballs Civil Rights Movement

Playing Hardball: Baseball's Gilded Age Labor Wars

Curt Flood Belongs In The Hall of Fame

Women Will Be Playing Hardball on TV This Season

The Baseball Hall of Fame must stop its bush league treatment of Marvin Miller

Politics The New A League of Their Own Takes on Jim Crow–Era Racism in Women’s Baseball Democrats Should Not Underestimate Steve Garvey Sean Doolittle, Baseball’s Left-Wing Lefty, Retires Jackie Robinson Was a Radical, don't listen to the sanitized version of history

Negro Leagues Frank Sykes: Baseball Rebel Joe Black

Remembering Players of the Past Johnny Antonelli Sam Nahem

  Peter Dreier  / Negro Leagues, Ladies Leagues,  Research & Analysis, Players

About the Author
Peter Dreier is professor of politics at Occidental College. His two book about baseball history, coauthored with Rob Elias – Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up The Game and Changed America and Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers’ Rights and American Empire – were both published in 2022.  He wrote the SABR bios of pitchers Sam Nahem and Joe Black and is currently writing a SABR bio of Abe Stark, known for his iconic sign, “Hit Sign, Win Suit,” on the right-field fence in Ebbets Field.  His current baseball research includes an examination of pro ballplayers who were elected to public office and the history of Jews and baseball.

Personal Endorsements

Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up The Game and Changed America

Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers’ Rights and American Empire

My webpage is: peterdreier.com

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