Rob Ruck is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

. He was a member of the

2006 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2006 proceeded in keeping with rules enacted in 2001, augmented by a special election; the result was the largest class of inductees (18) in the Hall's history, including the first woman elected, Effa M ...

Committee on African-American Baseball to select a large number of Negro League players for inclusion into the

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Books

*''Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL'' (The New Press, 2018) *''Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game'' (Beacon Press, 2011) *''Rooney: A Sporting Life'' (with Maggie Jones Patterson and Michael Weber) (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) *''The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic'' (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) *''Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh'' (University of Illinois Press, 1993) *''Steve Nelson, American Radical'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) with Steve Nelson and James Barrett

Television

*The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt) (PBS: 2006–2008)

References

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