Fighting for Fairness is the account of sportswriter Sam Lacy's career-long battle to lower racial barriers in sports. Lacy, who is in his nineties, spearheaded integration in major league baseball. He was inducted into the writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998. Lacy's sixty-four years of crusading sportswriting, all but a few of them as sports editor for the Afro-American newspapers of Baltimore, includes his dramatic efforts to do his job in a period when black people and white people did not mix in many aspects of American life -- including the press boxes from which he needed to work.
Sam Lacy's on-the-scene accounts of sports events and insider stories about legendary sports figures are unmatched. Lacy lived with sports heroes like Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby in the segregated accommodations to which they were relegated for years despite their outstanding performances on the playing fields of the nation. This extraordinary book stands as a mirror of the progress America has made in race relations during Sam Lacy's lifetime.