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Rob Ruck is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.[1]

Books

  • Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL (The New Press, 2018)[2]
  • Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press, 2011)[3]
  • Rooney: A Sporting Life (with Maggie Jones Patterson and Michael Weber) (University of Nebraska Press, 2010)[4][5]
  • The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)[6]
  • Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (University of Illinois Press, 1993)[7]
  • Steve Nelson, American Radical (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) with Steve Nelson and James Barrett[8]

Television

  • The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt) (PBS: 2006–2008)[9]

References

  1. ^ "Rob Ruck | Department of History | University of Pittsburgh". www.history.pitt.edu.
  2. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by Rob Ruck. New Press, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6209-7337-0". PublishersWeekly.com.
  3. ^ "In 'Raceball', A Look At Players And Race". NPR.org.
  4. ^ Welky, David (December 1, 2011). "Rooney: A Sporting Life". The International Journal of the History of Sport. 28 (18): 2765–2767. doi:10.1080/09523367.2011.628875. S2CID 144893819 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  5. ^ "'Rooney: A Sporting Life'". July 28, 2010.
  6. ^ Arbena, Joseph L. (August 1, 1992). "The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic". Hispanic American Historical Review. 72 (3): 417–418. doi:10.1215/00182168-72.3.417.
  7. ^ Hilliard, Dan C. (December 1, 1987). "Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh". Sociology of Sport Journal. 4 (4): 425–427. doi:10.1123/ssj.4.4.425 – via journals.humankinetics.com.
  8. ^ Marcus, Irwin M. (1983). "Book Reviews: Steve Nelson, American Radical, by Steve Nelson, James R. Barrett, and Bob Ruck". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies: 65–66.
  9. ^ "Rob Ruck". JSTOR Daily.
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