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ARTICLES
The Mormon Game: The Religious Uses of Baseball in Early Utah
Jim Warnock
Sports Reporting in New York City 1945-1960 by Two of the Er's Greatest and Most Influential Reporters—Arthur Daley and Lester Rodney
Robert Klein
Milwaukee and Atlanta, A Tale of Two Cities: Eddie, Hank, and the "Rover Boys" Head South
Ron Briley
The Road to October 23, 1945: the Press and the Integration of Baseball
Chris Lamb & Glen L. Bleske
Babe Ruth: My Magnificent Obsession
Peter Levine
The Coming of Age of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Nuke Laloosh
Michael J. McBride & Michelle A. Cervantes
The Transparent Baseball: "Making Contact" As Visionary Experience
Matthew C. Brennan
TRIPLE PLAY REVIEWS
The Writers' Game—Baseball Writing in America
Review essay by Robert Klein
Pardon My Myth: A Brief and Occasionally More Heretical Response to Robert Klein
Richard Orodenker
"Wild Play" Black and White in Jerome Charyn's Baseball Novel, The Seventh Babe
Review essay by Karl Lindholm
REVIEWS
The Yankee Encyclopedia
DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life
The Wonder Team: The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees
reviewed by Larry Gerlach
The Man in the Dugout
reviewed by Guy Waterman
Innocence and Wonder: Baseball through the Eyes of Batboys
Batboys and the World of Baseball
reviewed by Guy Waterman
Philadelphia's Old Ballparks
reviewed by Ron Kaplan
The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives on an American Hero
reviewed by Terence Malley
The October Heros
reviewed by Wes Singletary
The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant
reviewed by Jay C. Ziemann
Chicago Cubs: Season at the Summit, the 50 Greates Individual Seasons
reviewed by Bill Sass
Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs
reviewed by James B. Dworkin
That's a Winner
reviewed by Robert Bellamy
ORAL HISTORY
Paul Zwaska: Head Groundskeeper
George Gmelch
Up and Ready: The Oral History of a Florida Reliever
Wes Singletary
IF I WERE COMMISSIONER
Dick Crepeau
CONFERENCE REPORT
Terence Malley