Crossing the Line

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"Whether for loot or for love of the game, these players bridged the distance between racial segregation and racial integration in America's standard pastime."-Russell Adams, chair of the African American studies department, Howard University "The more you read the more you shake your head. The minority players of that era are truly inspirational."-Frank Thomas, player for the Oakland A's "It takes up where Robert Peterson's important Only the Ball Was White leaves off. . . . Moffi and Kronstadt demonstrate precisely and eloquently how the crossing of the color line was not a quick one-time event but, rather, a slow decade-long process of various courageous moves matched by even more cowardly moves by both players and owners."-Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review