Rob Ruck

Datos Biográficos

ID833684
NOMBRERob Ruck
NOMBRESRob
APELLIDORuck
FIRMARUCK R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Pittsburgh
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H2

  • Reflections on African Americans in Baseball

    Open AccessRob RuckARTICLERace and Social Problems2021

    During the last decade, a number of athletes began engaging in social activism. In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, that wave of protest became a tsunami, energizing collegiate and professional athletes and reverberating across society. But baseball, once in the vanguard of sports activism, remained on the sidelines. As the national pastime, it reflected the country's turn toward social Darwinism and segregation at the turn of the 20th cent…

  • The Field of Sports History at Critical Mass

    Rob RuckARTICLEJournal of American History2014Citada por: 1

    In the film Annie Hall, which came out in 1977, the year I began studying sport, Woody Allen tells a joke that captured how I then felt about the field of sports history. Two women at a Catskills resort were kvetching about dinner. One remarked: “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” Her friend responds: “I know, and such small portions!” That, Allen said, was how he felt about life—it was full of misery and over much too quickly. For …

  • Glory Bound

    Rob Ruck, Daphne Wiggins et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998Citada por: 8

    Journal Article Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America. By David K. Wiggins. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xx, 302 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8156-2733-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2734-3.) Get access Rob Ruck Rob Ruck University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1472–1473, https://…

  • Sugarball

    Warren S Goldstein, Warren Goldstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Sugarhall: The American Game, the Dominican Dream. By Alan M. Klein. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xii + 179 pp. $19.93, ISBN 0-300-04873-4.) and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. By Rob Ruck. (Westport: Meckler, 1991. xx + 205 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-88736-707-0.) Get access Warren Goldstein Warren Goldstein State University College of New York, Old Westhury, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…

  • The Tropic of Baseball

    Joseph L Arbena, Rob RuckARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1992

  • Sandlot Seasons

    Steven A Riess, Rob RuckARTICLEJournal of American History1988Citada por: 3

    Journal Article Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh. By Rob Ruck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xiii + 238 pp. $21.95.) Get access Steven A. Riess Steven A. Riess Northeastern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 1005–1006, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901695 Published: 01 December 1988

  • The Kansas City Monarchs

    Rob Ruck, Janet BruceARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball. By Janet Bruce. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985. x + 176 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, sources consulted, and index. $19.95.) Get access Rob Ruck Rob Ruck Chatham College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903706 Publishe…

  • Steve Nelson

    Steve Nelson, James R Barrett et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1984

  • The New History of American Communism

    Kenneth Waltzer, Maurice Isserman et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1983

  • Steve Nelson, American Radical

    Steve Nelson, James R Barrett et al.BOOKSteve Nelson, American Radical1981

    As the immigrant teenage son of a Croatian miller, Steve Nelson arrived in the United States after World War I and entered a world of chronic unemployment, low wages, dangerous work, and discrimination. Following the path taken by many fellow immigrant workers, he joined the Communist Party. He became a full-time organizer and ultimately a major leader, only to resign in 1957 after unsuccessful attempts to democratize the American party. This rem…