New book explores role of Jews in black baseball
Rebecca Alpert, associate professor of religion and women’s studies at Temple, brings a scholar's research and writer's grace to her subject in Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. Her book grew out of her childhood admiration for Jackie Robinson, the first known African American in modern-day Major League Baseball. While exploring the relationship between American Jews and black baseball, she discovered that "Jews came unexpectedly 'out of left field' to play a significant — although decidedly less heroic and more complex —– role in the history of black baseball than I could ever have imagined."
Jewish Week | June 21, 2011