Wendell Smith -- 12 Sources and Biblio

List of writings about Wendell Smith

  • Carroll, Brian. “A Crusading Journalist’s Last Campaign: Wendell Smith and the Desegregation of Baseball’s Spring Training.” Communication and Social Change 1 (2007): 38-54.
  • Carroll, Brian. “The Black Press and the Integration of Professional Baseball: A Content Analysis of Shifts in Coverage, 1945-1948.” Journal of Sports Media 3 (2008): 61-87.
  • Lamb, Chris. “Baseball’s Whitewash: Sportswriter Wendell Smith Exposes Major League Baseball’s Big Lie.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 18 (2009): 1-20.
  • Lamb, Chris. “’What’s Wrong With Baseball’: The Pittsburgh Courier and the Beginning of its Campaign to Integrate the National Pastime.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (2002): 189-203.
  • McTaggart, Ursula. “Writing Baseball into History: The Pittsburgh Courier, Integration, and Baseball in a War of Position.” American Studies 47 (2006): 113-132.
  • Schraf, Mark W. “Wendell Smith” in 20th Century American Sportswriters: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 171, edited by Richard Orodenker. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1996.
  • Stout, Glenn. “Tryout and Fallout: Race, Jackie Robinson, and the Red Sox.” Massachusetts Historical Review 6 (2004): 11-37.
  • Weaver, Bill L. “The Black Press and the Assault on Professional Baseball’s ‘Color Line,’ October, 1945—April, 1947.” Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 40 (1979): 303-317.
  • Wiggins, David K. “Wendell Smith, The Pittsburgh Courier Journal, and the…”, Journal of Sport History (1989).