God Almighty hisself: the life and legacy of Dick Allen

Mitchell Nathanson presents Dick Allen's life against the backdrop of organised baseball's continuing desegregation process.

Drawing out the larger generational and business shifts in the game, he shows how Allen's career exposed not only the racial double standard that had become entrenched in the wake of the game's integration a generation earlier but also the forces that were bent on preserving the status quo.

In the process, he unveils the strange and maddening career of a man who somehow managed to fulfill and frustrate expectations all at once.