Rob Ruck

Rob Ruck is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.^[1] He was a member of the 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting Committee on African-American Baseball to select a large number of Negro League players for inclusion into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Books

• Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL (The New Press, 2018)^[2]
• Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press, 2011)^[3]
• Rooney: A Sporting Life (with Maggie Jones Patterson and Michael Weber) (University of Nebraska Press, 2010)^[4][5]
• The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)^[6]
• Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (University of Illinois Press, 1993)^[7]
• Steve Nelson, American Radical (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) with Steve Nelson and James Barrett^[8]

Television

• The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt) (PBS: 2006–2008)^[9]