Fields
U.S. History
Sport History
Pittsburgh History
Teaching
U.S. History Since 1877
U.S. History Since 1945
History of Sport
History of Sport and Global Capitalism
Education & Training
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1983
Representative Publications
Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City (2023)
Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL (2018)
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
Research Interests
Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer, with Liann Tsoukas (forthcoming)
The Souls of the Game: The Voices of Black Baseball, a permanent exhibit at the Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, Opening May 2024.
Youth in the Republic of Play (a book about youth and global sport)