Fighting for Fairness is the account of sportswriter Sam Lacy's
career-long battle to lower racial barriers in sports. Lacy, who is
in his nineties, spearheaded integration in major league baseball.
He was inducted into the writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1998.
Lacy's sixty-four years of crusading sportswriting, all but a
few of them as sports editor for the Afro-American newspapers of
Baltimore, includes his dramatic efforts to do his job in a period
when black people and white people did not mix in many aspects of
American life -- including the press boxes from which he needed to
work.
Sam Lacy's on-the-scene accounts of sports events and insider
stories about legendary sports figures are unmatched. Lacy lived
with sports heroes like Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby in the
segregated accommodations to which they were relegated for years
despite their outstanding performances on the playing fields of the
nation. This extraordinary book stands as a mirror of the progress
America has made in race relations during Sam Lacy's lifetime.
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