Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Laying Out the Field: Theoretical Approaches
  • 2. First Innings: Baseball, Cricket, and the Bourgeois Ideal of Healthful Sport
  • 3. New Players: Baseball and Working-Class Culture
  • 4. 'Throw 'em Out': Rowdyism, Respectability, and the Yankee Baseballist
  • 5. Gendered Baselines: The Tour of the Chicago Blackstockings
  • 6. A Manly Sport: Baseball and the Social Construction of Masculinity
  • 7. Reforming the Game: Baseball in the Progressive Era
  • 8. Baseball as Civic Accomplishment: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Community Identity
  • 9. The 'Others': Race, Ethnicity, and Community Baseball
  • 10. Extra Innings: The Eclipse of Community Baseball
  • Post-Game Reflections.