About Rob Ruck
Rob Ruck was a historian, sport historian and writer.
Rob Ruck is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting Committee on African-American Baseball to select a large number of Negro League players for inclusion into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Books Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL (The New Press, 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 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
Television The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt) (PBS: 2006–2008)
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