"Paul Debono's highly engaging and powerfully written book, Black Baseball in Cincinnati: A History , is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of African American Cincinnatians, along with the topics of baseball and race relations, as well as African American joy and perseverance from a local, regional, and national perspective. Also crucial to this highly researched and extremely important volume are the passionate and eloquent words that consistently jump off the pages as the author describes the various Black American baseball teams that populated Cincinnati, Ohio, and several surrounding cities and states. For these points alone, Debono should be congratulated.this book leaves the reader wanting more and more as the author discusses numerous important topics, based on both little-known and highly used sources about the history and legacy of several local and regional "Negro" League baseball teams that enhance the lives of Black Americans locally, regionally, and nationwide daily."--Eric R. Jackson, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, professor of history and Black studies, Northern Kentucky University.