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The Integration of Minor League Baseball: A History and Player Register, 1946-1959 is Rick Swaine's latest book. Though much has been written about Negro Leagues players and Black major leaguers of the integration era, little attention has been given to the accomplishments and struggles of Black minor league pioneers. This work is a history of minor league integration with complete records for the more than one thousand players of color who toiled in Organized Baseball's minor leagues from 1946 to 1959, competing against the odds for a shot at the big leagues that few would get.More...

Do It for Chappie: The Ray Chapman Tragedy is Rick Swaine's historical novel about the Cleveland Indians' 1920 championship season. Chapman, the popular 29-year-old team captain and star shortstop of the Cleveland Indians, was felled by a fastball thrown by reviled head-hunter Carl Mays of the New York Yankees late in the 1920 season. Recently married to the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, he was playing the best ball of his outstanding career; leading his club in a fierce battle for first place in the American League at the time. More...

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Swaine's fourth book, Baseball's Comeback Players, profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. More...

Swaine's third book, The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History, is a record of the events of baseball’s protracted integration era. More...

Swaine's second book, The Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole is the story of the integration of baseball, told through the lives and careers of the first generation of black major leaguers who made it happen. More...

Swaine's first book, Beating the Breaks: Major League Baseball Players Who Overcame Disabilities, is a collection of profiles of the remarkable number of men who overcame serious obstacles to play major league baseball. More...