Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League before World War II
• 2. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League in the 1940s
• 3. John Ritchey Integrates the San Diego Padres, 1948
• 4. Momentum and Challenges, 1949
• 5. The Pacific Coast League Integrates, 1950–52
• Afterword
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Amy Essington is an instructor in the history department at California State University, Fullerton.
 
 

Reviews

“The desegregation of the Pacific Coast League is a story that has never been fully told until now. Amy Essington gives a thorough account of the process and the individuals. . . . Essington explains the story beyond Robinson and Rickey. A definite must-read.”—Leslie Heaphy, editor of Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star, and the Negro Leagues

“Based on a subject that has received too little attention from sports historians, The Integration of the Pacific Coast League explores the important role that the PCL played in the integration of baseball and how it became one of the first sports leagues to be fully integrated.”—Dick Beverage, founder and former president of the Pacific Coast League Historical Society