Kathleen Nelson

Big Hair, Polyester Suits, and the Advent of the Sports Machine

By Kathleen Nelson

Through the personal experiences of recurring characters, MacCambridge covers more or less chronologically how, during the ’70s, sports turned the corner on four cornerstone issues.

The Only Woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame

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With little of Effa’s own words and personal details, the book is less a biography than an overview of how systemic racism played out in her childhood, in her young adulthood living in Harlem during the Renaissance and in the arc of the Negro Leagues. Despite the lack of Effa’s voice, however, this is a story worth telling and even more worth reading for a young audience.