This page contains publications related to George Sweatt, his family, the Negro Leagues, and the 2025-2026 Gene DeGruson Exhibit.

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Submissions from 2025

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Baseball’s Color Line in Kansas and the Chanute Black Diamonds of 1904–1906, Revised, Mark E. Eberle

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Integrated Baseball in Kansas during the Sport's Era of Segregation, 1865-1945, second edition, Mark E. Eberle

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2025 Gene DeGruson Exhibit Posters, Special Collections and Archives

Submissions from 2014

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BASEBALL'S FIRST COLORED WORLD SERIES: THE 1924 MEETING OF THE HILLDALE GIANTS AND KANSAS CITY MONARCHS, Larry Lester

Submissions from 2006

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Black baseball and Chicago: essays on the players, teams, and games of the Negro leagues' most important city, Leslie A. Heaphy

Submissions from 2003

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Black baseball: a history of African-Americans & the national game, Kyle McNary

Submissions from 2002

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The Monarchs 1920-1938: featuring Wilber "Bullet" Rogan, the greatest ballplayer in Cooperstown, Phil Dixon

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Baseball's Other All-Stars, William McNeil

Submissions from 2000

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Black Baseball in Kansas City: Black America Series, Larry Lester and Sammy Miller

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A game for all races: An illustrated history of the Negro Leagues, Henry Metcalfe

Submissions from 1992

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When the game was black and white: the illustrated history of the Negro leagues, Bruce Chadwick

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The ultimate Kansas City baseball trivia quiz book: Royals, Monarchs, Athletics, Blues and more, Phil Dixon, Frank White, and Joseph Zanatta

Submissions from 1991

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Black diamonds: life in the Negro leagues from the men who lived it, John Holway

Submissions from 1985

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The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball, Janet Bruce