Robert C. Cottrell was a longtime professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He taught a course for many years on American Popular Culture and offered seminars on baseball and American culture. He is the author of THE BEST PITCHER IN BASEBALL: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant; BLACKBALL, THE BLACK SOX, AND THE BABE: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season; TWO PIONEERS: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball — and America; THE YEAR WITHOUT A WORLD SERIES: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players' Strike; and THE HEYDAY OF WILLIE, DUKE, AND MICKEY: New York City Baseball's Golden Age Amid Integration. He lives in California.

Books by Robert C. Cottrell

The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City Baseball's Golden Age Amid Integration

by Robert C. Cottrell - Nonfiction, Sports

In the golden age of baseball, three Major League Baseball teams in New York City vied for supremacy on the diamond, with the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees each winning at least one World Series. Too often overlooked, the Negro Leagues had five teams in the city fighting for primacy in the sport: the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the New York Lincoln Giants, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cubans, and, albeit very briefly, the Brooklyn Eagles. In THE HEYDAY OF WILLIE, DUKE, AND MICKEY, Robert C. Cottrell highlights a unique period in history when New York City baseball was at its height of dominance, spanning over a decade in postwar America.