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ARTICLES
A Solitary Journey: Lefthander Ila Jane Borders
Jean Hastings Ardell
"A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball": Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic
Thomas L. Altherr
Baseball as a Symbiosis of Interests: A Survey of Men and Women at Minor League Games in the Midwest
Dave Ogden
The Right Piece of Carbon: Baseball Ambitions, Scouting and the Draft
George Gmelch
Diamond Hope: The Bond between Jackie and the Jews
Marc Koslowsky
TRIPLE PLAY REVIEWS
Costner's Triple Play: From Bull Burham to Field of Dreams to For Love of the Game
Frank Ardolino
Baseball's Pivotal Era 1945-1951
reviewed by Lee Lowenfish
Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream
reviewed by Jerry Malloy
BOOK REVIEWS
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
reviewed by Ron Briley
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
reviewed by David Skinner
Where's Harry?: Steve Stone Remembers His Years with Harry Carey
reviewed by Dick Crepeau
Opening Day: All Major League Baseball Season Opening Games by Team, 1876 - 1998
reviewed by Tom Ruane
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936 - 1938
reviewed by James R. Tootle
Baseball's Forgotten Heroes: One Fan's Search for the Game's Most Interesting Overlooked Players
reviewed by Frederick Ivor-Campbell
Jim Bunning: Baseball and Beyond
reviewed by Jay Ziemann
Catching Dreams: My LIfe in the Negro Leagues
reviewed by Gary Land
Early Dreams
reviewed by Frances Pendleton
Missed It By That Much: Baseball Players Who Challenged the Record Books
reviewed by Rodney Johnson
Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story: Life Lessons in Overcoming Adversity On and Off the Field
reviewed by Jay Ziemann
The League that Failed
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
reviewed by William E. Akin
Stolen: A History of Base Stealing
reviewed by William T. Windham
Baseball's Golden Greeks—The First Forty Years: 1934 - 1974
reviewed by Anthony J. Papalas
Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters
reviewed by William E. Akin
Mel Ott: The Little Giant of Baseball
reviewed by Jan Finkel
TALES FROM THE DUGOUT
The Search for My First Game
Bill Kirwin
A Little League Memoir: A Mid-Life Recollection
Scott C. Stackpole
Apples
Peter Ruckoff