• 1: Baseball Was America


• 2: The Business of Black People Before Integration


• 3: The Conflict Over Baseball Comedy


• 4: Ending Jim Crow Baseball: The Jewish Contribution


• Bibliography

Rebecca Alpert is Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University and the author of Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism.

Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America. In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews called the Belleville Grays made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.