Reconstructing fame: sport, race, and evolving reputations

Constructing banality: the trivialization of the Jackie Robinson legacy / Joel Nathan Rosen

Roberto Clemente: from ignominy to icon / David C. Ogden

Curt flood: "death is a slave's freedom": his fight against baseball, history, and white supremacy / David J. Leonard

Paul Robeson: honor and the politics of dignity / Prosper Godonoo

Remaking an overlooked icon: the reconstruction of Jim Thorpe / Robert W. Reising

Bill Russell: from revulsion to resurrection / Murry Nelson

Racing after Smith and Carlos: revisiting those fists some forty years hence / Urla Hill

Afterword: the globalization of vilification; the localization of redemption / Jack Lule.