The author would like to thank David Brewer, Director, Friends of Rickwood, for his help in preparing this manuscript.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:

Cover art by Mike Heath | Magnus Creative.

Announcement, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York.

Segregated drinking fountain in the South, Bettman/Corbis.

Segregated bus station in the South, the Granger Collection.

Southern League All-Stars game at Rickwood Field, courtesy of the Friends of Rickwood.

Pittsburg Crawfords’ team bus, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York.

Fans at a Homestead Grays game, ibid.

1948 Birmingham Black Barons team picture, ibid.

Ed Steele, Piper Davis, and Art Wilson, ibid.

Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige, 1942, ibid.

Willie Mays, 1950, ibid.

Josh Gibson, ibid.

Jackie Robinson, AP Photo.

Jackie Robinson stealing home, ibid.

Walter Fenner “Buck” Leonard, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York.

Map by Heather Saunders.