George Gmelch was a top prospect in the Detroit Tigers organization in the 1960’s. Read about the price he paid for standing up to racism and injustice in the small southern towns where his promising baseball career came to an abrupt ending.

Dr. George Gmelch is an anthropologist, emeritus professor at the University of San Francisco, and the author of fourteen books, including the highly acclaimed Playing with Tigers, A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties.