Baseball season is here

Happy Opening Day to baseball fans all across the country!

According to Shelf Awareness, UNP is doing its part by having more than 118 baseball titles in print. And David Davis of the New York Times said, “the pulse of baseball beats strongly in the heart of Cornhusker Nation.”

Davis interviewed interim editor-in-chief, Rob Taylor, about how the press started to publish so many baseball books. Read the full article here.

And Dorothy Seymour Mills reviewed Conspiracy of Silence by Chris Lamb for the New York Journal of Books as “…overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of the black press in advancing integration in this country.” Read the review here.

Conspiracy of Silence was also reviewed by Katherine A. Powers for the Barnes & Noble Review. Powers said, “Lamb shows how pivotal the desegregation of baseball was to that of the nation as a whole." See the full review at Salon.com.