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The Hardball Times - Speak Their Names

Complex - How Baseball Can Truly Honor Jackie Robinson

The Hardball Times - The Case for Bringing Back Ladies Day

The Hardball Times - High Fives from the President

The Shadow League - Women of Color in Media: Progress Required

The Hardball Times - The Civil War, Civil Rights, and Black Baseball

Baseball Prospectus - Baseball & Jazz

Baseball Prospectus - Loss, For Words

Baseball Prospectus - Pumpsie Green, The Last of the Firsts

Baseball Prospectus - Believe in Ashton Lansdell

SB Nation - Reggie Jackson and the true definition of clutch

Baseball Prospectus - CC Sabathia Represented History

Baseball Prospectus - We Are the Ship, All Else the Sea

SB Nation - Effa Manley's Hidden Life

Baseball Prospectus - Activism is Art Over Action for MLB

Baseball Prospectus - Dear Jackie,

Baseball Prospectus - From Ghetto to Glory

MLB.com - Abolitionist Catto was Black baseball pioneer

MLB.com - Posey was peerless in Negro Leagues lore

Yahoo! Sports - Privilege of Play: Black communities need investment, true allyship if baseball wants to address decline

Baseball Prospectus - MLB Cannot Elevate the Negro Leagues By Subsuming Them

Baseball Prospectus - Andrea Williams Has the Pen

Baseball Prospectus - Jazz (We’ve Got)

Baseball Prospectus - Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Summer of ’54

FiveThirtyEight - Marcus Stroman Wears A Durag Every Game He Starts. Which One Does He Pitch Best In?

ASU Global Sport Matters: Beyond Bud Selig: Can Baseball Fix Its Pipeline for Managers of Color

Fangraphs - 2022 Early Baseball Era Committee Candidate: George “Tubby” Scales

Fangraphs - 2022 Early Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Buck O’Neil

Baseball Prospectus - From a Man to a Movement: Jackie Robinson Day

fangraphs april 2018 residency:

The White Sox Cap and Hip Hop Culture

Diversity in Baseball Begins in Little League

The Underappreciated Legacy of Larry Doby

Is Baseball Ready to Love Dick Allen?

books and essay collections:

taylor’s reporting, cultural commentary, and writing can be found in these published works by other writers and authors:

Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin

Sporting Justice: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915–1958 by Miriam Wright

We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan by Jessica Luther & Kavitha Davidson

Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America by Gerald Early and the National Baseball Hall of Fame

The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2021