A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America. Athletes have of

"Baseball Rebels tells stories of reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movement

"The Northern League was a bold, rebellious baseball experiment: the first time in decades that an independent minor league bucked the rule of organized basebal

In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way in

The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment