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A Complete History of the Negro Leagues, 1884 to 1955). By Mark Ribowsky. (New York: Birch Lane, 1995. xx, 332 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55972-283-5.)
Mark Ribowsky, who has penned biographies of sport figures Satchel Paige and Al Davis, makes a contribution to the growing volume of literature on baseball's segregated past and the Negro Leagues, but his account hardly justifies the title of a complete history.
Ribowsky casts himself as a revisionist scholar of the Afro-American game, stating that his narrative will be "unsentimental." Accordingly, the author focuses on the considerable bickering among Negro League owners, as well as their involvement with...