NINE 06:2

NINE 06:2

Edited by Bill Kirwin

Table Of Contents

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ARTICLES

The First World's Championship of Professional Baseball: The New York Metropolitans and the Providence Grays, 1884
Larry G. Bowman

Eddie Waitkus and Bernard Malamud: Life versus Art
Charles C. Alexander

At the Hall with Rainman
Gene Carney

The Lovesongs of J. Abner Doubleday: Women's Freedom to Write Love (and Lust) and Baseball
Elisabeth Brooke

America's Game: A Study of Baseball Fiction and the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era
Clarence Jenkins

Death in the Ballpark: Tracing the Detective Novel
David McGimpsey

TRIPLE PLAY REVIEWS

Wrong Number: Ken Burn's "Baseball" and a SABR-L Listserver Brouhaha
Bob Boynton

The Indianapolis ABC's Reviewed
Jerry Malloy

Diamonds of the North
Owen Ricker

POETRY

Lou Brock and My Dad Steal Home in the Driveway
Jorn Ake

Sacrifice
Jorn Ake

Baseball Metaphysical
Michael Thomas Marsden

BOOK REVIEWS

Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait
reviewed by Patrick Henry

Conquering Life's Curves: Baseball, Battles & Beyond
reviewed by Terence Malley

The Twin Killing: The Bill Mazeroski Story
reviewed by Ron Kaplan

Junior: Griffey on Griffey
reviewed by Russell Hollander

Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 171, Twentieth-Century Sportswriters
reviewed by Bob Boynton

Chasing the Dream—My Lifelong Journey to the World Series
reviewed by Boby Plapinger

Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat
reviewed by Anna R. Newton

Baseball Girls
reviewed by Frank Ardolino

I Love Baseball
reviewed by Robert E. Kraft

Baseball Encyclopedic
reviewed by Bill Kirwin

ORAL HISTORY

Bob Evans: Broadcaster, Norfolk Tides
George Gmelch

ELYSIAN FIELDS

On Independent Highways: Visits to the Newest Minor Leagues
Jon Stott

IF I WERE BASEBALL COMMISSIONER

If I were Baseball Commissioner
Karl Lindholm