Contents

Preface

Note on Monetary Conversions

1. The Coolest of Them All? Mantle, Mays, or Doby?

2. The Branch Rickey Yardstick

3. Bill Veeck Compared

4. Doby Breaks the Color Line in the American League

5. Doby’s Middle Years: World Championships, Home Run and RBI Titles

6. It Takes a Village (and More): Efforts at Breaking the Color Line in Baseball

7. The Shadow Cast by Rickey and Robinson

8. The Second Shadow? A Tale of Two Cities

9. Playing in the American League

10. The Long Shadow of Satchel Paige

11. Should Paige Have Been the First?

12. The Mantle Shadow? Mickey, Mantle Boulevard, Mantle Museum, Mick Lit, Mick Legend, The Mick

13. Conflation of the Mantle Legend

14. Willie Mays and “The Catch”

15. Casting Their Own Shadows: Robinson, Doby, and the News Media

16. Doby’s Later Years

17. Doby, Robinson, Baseball, and Racism

18. A Seldom-Remembered Pioneer

Postscript on Baseball Statistics

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index