Rob Ruck: 4 books
Raceball
How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball
After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin...
The Tropic of Baseball
Baseball in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars.
Tropic of Football
The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Moneyball, Soccernomics and the Sports Gene have become hugely successful by trying to unravel and explain sporting excellence. The Tropic of Football joins these books by taking an in-depth social and cultural look at the Samoan sporting cultures as found in the Samoan islands, Hawaii and California.
There...
Rooney
A Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh...