A frequent writer about baseball, among other things, Adelson explores the lives and times of black players who helped end segregation in minor league baseball in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, years after Hank Aaron and others had done so in the national major leagues. He also points out the role they played in the civil rights struggle that was rising at the time. There is no index. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)