Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball

Named a top 50 baseball book of all time by the Huffington Post

Named 2013 Best Book on Journalism and Mass Communication History by the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Named a top book for 2012 by Choice

The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and still less about the eff...