Introduction : The costs of racism
The Negro leagues : baseball by and for black people
The American League : the trials of a major league
The masks of separation : why integration was unlikely to happen
A more honest face : how integration happened
The American League tries : the pioneer experiments
Interlude. The end of the road : the Negro leagues wither
Reluctant realists : a change gathers momentum
Ungracious surrender : the ongoing resistance of the final two
Looking back-and looking ahead.