Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Baseball and culture
  • "When Homer smote his bloomin' lyre" : some observations on sportswriting / Roger Kahn
  • Safe at home : forging intergenerational alliances / C. Oren Renick
  • "Jesus is standing at the home plate" : baseball and American Christianity / Gregory Erickson
  • Physical literacy in baseball and other sports / Robert Ochsner
  • A flexible metaphor : baseball in the classroom / Michelle Jones
  • "Walter Johnson" by Jonathan Richman : the portrait of a hero in song / Richard J. Puerzer
  • pt. 2. Baseball as history
  • "This town isn't big enough for both of us" : politics, economics, and local rivalries in St. Louis Major League Baseball / Roger D. Launius
  • Baseball during World War II : an exploration of the issue / Gerald Bazer and Steven Culbertson
  • The game in sepiatone and soft focus : nostalgia and American baseball in historical context / Thomas L. Altherr
  • pt. 3 The business of baseball
  • Major league umpires and collective bargaining / Karen Shallcross Koziara
  • Customer discrimination in memorabilia : new evidence for Major League Baseball / Rhonda Sharpe and Sumner La Croix
  • Despoiling the sleeve : the threat of corporate advertising upon the integrity of the major league uniform / Ken Moon
  • pt. 4. Race, gender, and ethnicity in the national pastime
  • Houston's Latin star Cesar Cedeno and death in the Dominican Republic : the troubled legacy of race relations in the Lone Star State [Texas] / Ron Briley
  • Comparative ethnicity : Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg / William Simons
  • Baseball in the Ocean State : Rhode Island Black baseball, 1886-1948 / Lawrence D. Hogan and Jeffrey L. Statts
  • "She loved baseball" : Effa Manley and Negro League baseball / Amy Essington
  • Black players on the field of dreams : African American baseball in film / George Grella
  • "I haven't got ballplayers. I've got girls" : portrayals of women in baseball film / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most.