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
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
Pittsburgh: A History (with Edward Muller)
The Mighty Mouth: The Life and Times of Mal Goode (with Liann Tsoukas)