Department of History

U.S. History Since 1877
U.S. History Since 1945
History of Sport

Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press: 2011)

Rooney: A Sporting Life (with Maggie Jones Patterson and Michael Weber) (University of Nebraska Press: 2010)

The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt)  (PBS: 2006-2008)

The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (University of Nebraska Press,1999)

Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (University of Illinois Press,1993)

Steve Nelson, American Radical (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) with Steve Nelson and James Barrett

Hall of Fame Negro League Election Committee (2006)
LaRoche College Presidential Medal (1993)
Emmy, Mid-Atlantic Region of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Cultural Programming (1994)
SABR-MacMillan Award (1991)