Rob Ruck
Rob Ruck is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. 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
- Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
- Rooney: A Sporting Life
- The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic
- Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh
- Steve Nelson, American Radical with Steve Nelson and James Barrett
Television
- The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game