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A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society - and in turn helped change America.Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on controversial issues; but throughout the sport's history, there have been many players who were willing to stand up and fight for what was right.In Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire, Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country's dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within their profession and their country.
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Robert Elias is Professor of Politics and Chair of Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he has received the Sarlo Prize, the Distinguished Research Award, and Frank Beach Service Award, and been a Davies Professor and the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair. He teaches courses on U.S. political history, human rights, constitutional law, American foreign policy, and baseball. Elias was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) , Penn State University (M.A., PhD) , and the University of Strasbourg (Certificate) . He is the author of eight books, and numerous essays and articles in both popular and academic periodicals. He's the Editor in Chief of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. He's received numerous honors, including a Fulbright Award and two MacArthur Grants. He's taught at the University of California - Berkeley, Tufts University, the University of Maryland, and Penn State University. He's been a researcher at the Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies (Boston) , Oxfam America (Boston) , the Vera Institute of Justice (New York) , the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) , and the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) . He lives in Mill Valley, California.
